I would like to share with you this passage from Ross King's Michelangelo
and the Pope's Ceiling (Chapter 17: The Golden Age):
Michelangelo was a superstitious man. When one of his friends, a lute
player named Cardiere, told him of a strange vision, the artist did not scruple
to
Beard here (though perhaps for only a short while longer after 21 years).
Leonard
From: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/12/12 Sun PM 06:23:28 EST
To: Lute Net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Beards
Dear Roman,
I am aghast at the
Dick Hoban and the LSA Quarterly staff--
I just opened the latest Quarterly, and what a pleasant surprise! It seems
that at this season everyone is requesting arrangements of holiday music, and
you've gone and put together a wonderful compendium of it.
Thanks so much, and may the
I am no art historian, but I must (IMHO) say that there seems to be as
much wrong with this picture as there is right: the perspective of the bouts
is perfect; the perspective of the tuning head is twisted; a supplementary
bridge too narrow and flat to match the fretboard.
Why would
Why would a second, flatter bridge be necessary to convert from bowing to
plucking? A flatter bridge would raise the strings unequally above the
fingerboard (higher at the edges), making left-hand fingerings, especially at
higher positions, rather difficult. Could this extra bridge instead
This thread started in reference to the possibility of medieval luthiers
making/using wire strings for _harps_. Since the harp strings are not stopped
(except on rare occasions), would the string need to be perfectly true? Also,
in a case like this, we're not talking about kms of uniform
a disc of finely tooled copper might also work - make
your baroque guitar into a mini-resonator!
Can I make my lute into a dobro by similar means? Slide lute! What kind of
bottleneck would be recommended for authentic technique? ;^)
Regards,
Leonard Williams
RE wire strings, which were somehow deemed an implausibility on early harps:
This is pure conjecture, but I think that by the middle ages craftsmen had
been working with various metals long enough to have figured out how to draw it
through a die to get wire. Perhaps the greatest obstacle to
I don't have a personal e-mail address for Katherine Congdon-Caldwell,
but I would like to thank her for the lovely Prelude she composed and
contributed to the latest LSA Quarterly.
Thanks, katherine! If she's not on the list (does anyone know?), I
would appreciate a forwarding
Is there any word on Arthur Ness's new editions of Francesco da Milano and
Marco dall'Aquila?
Thanks,
Leonard Williams
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Given the pitch ambiguity of tablature, perhaps it would be more useful to
discuss the grouping of pieces by mode. Thus you consider different
sequences/arrangements of whole and half steps rather than identically
formulated scales based on an ill-defined absolute pitch.
I'm sure
Diann--
Alonso Mudarra'a Tres Libros... has a lot of work organized by mode. I
think he may have been the earliest to do this. He has tientos, fantasias, and
sometimes settings of parts of the Mass in Libro II.
regards,
Leonard Williams
Eugene--
Speaking of classical banjo, have you heard Béla Flek's
album Perpetual Motion? He does a remarkable performance on banjo of Bach,
Scarlatti, Debussy, Beethoven and more.
Leonard
From: Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL
Slightly tangential to this thread:
Thanks for the inducement to get out my trusty-but-dusty metronome and see how
horrible my unconscious rubato has become. As an unenviably solitary player, I have
no way to check myself without the ticker, and getting it out always produces a
Peter et al--
Peter asked: Do the jpg files have meaningful names? Are they organized in a file
structure that allows identification of the pieces without the presentational
structure? Or do you have to look at each picture
individually until you find what you want?
The jpg files
I have been able to run the viewer using Virtual PC 6 on an iMac; however,
unless you already have VPC, I don't know if it would be worth the cost of getting it
for one application.
Leonard
From: Peter Nightingale [EMAIL
I purchased the CD-ROM for use with a PC; however, the images are all jpg and
accessible on a Mac. What one misses is the presentational format (for lack of a
better phrase) which makes it easier to find pieces by title or even folio.
Regards,
Leonard Williams
Alfonso--
I accessed your site with Opera 7.52 for Mac, and I had no trouble. The samples
sound great!
Sincerely,
Leonard Williams
From: Alfonso Marin Lopez-Salazar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/10/20 Wed PM 07:36:49 EDT
To:
A fine, and surprisingly humorous, work on punctuation is Eats, Shoots Leaves by
Lynne Truss. Very amusing and informative, even if you don't like grammar.
BTW, for correct English usage sticklers, it has been proposed that ain't is the
only correct way to make a contraction of am [I] not.
Vihuela had six courses. Check the editions of the 16th c. vihuelists--they include
pieces for 6 cs. vihuela and 4 cs. guitar.
Regards,
Leonard
From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/09/16 Thu AM 03:50:28 EDT
To: [EMAIL
Campion's Jack and Jone may be a good tune to look into:
Jack and Jone they think no ill, but loving live, and merry still
Leonard Williams
Thanks for the tastino tips!
Leonard
With the theory out there that the Chinese visited the Americas c. 1430, including the
Pacific coasts, perhaps the Pipa is the ancestor of the charango! :^)
Leonard Williams
Keepers of Sage Advice:
I've been relying on thin double-sided tape to affix a tastino to my fingerboard.
Generally, it holds fast, harms nothing, and is easily removable when I need to change
a fret. However, after a while it tends to lose its grip, leaving me with an Amazing
Spinning
Ed--
Is this perchance the nefarious Black Knight portrayed by Rowan Atkinson (aka
Mr. Bean)? Hilarious spoof series on the middle ages. They produced companion series
in Elizabethan England and later periods also.
Regards,
Leonard Williams
Bill--
You are absolutely right!! Thanks for the quick correction to my faulty memory!
Leonard
From: bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/08/30 Mon PM 05:21:29 EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
I always thought a ricercar fell somewhere between a Cadillac and a Bentley.
Leonard
From: Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/08/04 Wed AM 01:29:26 EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Ed Durbrow
...The only problem is that they work on 12V DC...
The one I have used ran on house current; I simply connected zip cord and a plug to
it.
Leonard
From: Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/07/28 Wed AM 03:16:36 EDT
To: Lute
Tom (et al)--
Ed's suggestion of following a voice as far as you can is a good one. For
practice, get hold of someting simple like Valderrano's duos, where the two voices
are quite apparent. To help keep those voices in mind as you play, you could try
using different colored highlighters
Herb--
At a computer or electronics shop (such as Radio Shack) you might find a nice
little whisper fan used to cool electronic components. You may have to attach a cord
and plug yourself, but they're darn quiet.
Regards,
Leonard Williams
I really don't have room in my case for a humidifier device without the thing
potentially applying too much moisture on some surface portion of the lute. What I
have tried (and it seems to work -- my house is very dry in the winter) is a zip-lock
with bag pin holes pricked in one side and a
(A little late in this thread, but my machine hasn't been working!)
Some tempos of early music have been determined by means of early music boxes which
very accurately recorded the intended speed of the music. (Sorry--no further details
on hand.)
Regards,
Leonard Williams
David--
First--I'm not trying to sell nylgut or any other material--just trying to sort
out some parameters and effects.
You wrote For me it is a 'dead' string..
When I first got my lute, strung in nylgut, I thought it sounded a bit on the dead
side. However, when I retuned in
Ed et al--
My experience with prestretched nylgut is that it resumes its previous relaxed
length to a great extent. As I explained in a previous post, I had a treble break
near the bridge, leaving enough string to retie it and re-use it. In the short time
it was relaxed, it lost any
The diagonal lines may indicate a held note, particularly if they extend from a
bass note and continue under a moving upper line. If it is an open string, try to let
it ring; if fretted, try to keep it fretted until the line ends, which sometimes
requires some left-hand fingering
Stephen--
I'm very amateur, but have been playing for some time; haven't done a lot of
experimenting with stringing, but FWIW: I like nylgut over other synthetics for the
feel and sound; I like it over gut for its relatively greater stability and lesser
cost.
For my treble g I use a
VuePrint, whcih can be downloaded as shareware, will open the *.png files, and convert
them to a anumber of other graphics formats, like jpg or gif. If anyone would like me
to convert and send an attachment (privately, of course) let me know.
Leonard Williams
I'm still looking forward to Arthur's updated, tab only complete Francesco, as well as
Marco dall'Aquila.
Leonard Williams
From: G.R. Crona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/05/05 Wed AM 08:52:19 EDT
To: lute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Mark--
It took me many years to find a truly secure and comfortable way to hold my lute.
I'm on the tall side, and long in the torso, so I've usually had trouble supporting
the lute on a thigh and having my arms at a workable position. I used a footrest, but
it had to be rather high. A
test
Donald Sauter, at website
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7049/
created a program which he uses to write ascii-tab from an input file quite similar
in appearance to Wayne's TAB input. His program writes guitar tab, his preference as a
guitarist. It's very readable. Perhaps he
I posted a query about oil of tartar a couple of years ago and received some
strong advisories against its use from chemistry knowledgeable listers. It is
basically hydrated potassium carbonate, and extremely caustic. The pure salt left in
open air is hydrophillic enough to absorb
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