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Subject: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente
On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:29 PM, William Samson
Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente
To those of you who were discussing this - I had the following reply from
Wilfred which I think clarifies pretty well what he means in the context of
the Bach piece..
The use of diatessaron and diapente in this context relates
So he put it in D because he thinks it sounds better.
Rob
www.robmackillop.net
On 4 Nov 2011, at 19:14, Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente
To those of you who were discussing this - I had the following reply from
Wilfred which I
: diatessaron/diapente
So he put it in D because he thinks it sounds better.
Rob
www.robmackillop.net
On 4 Nov 2011, at 19:14, Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente
To those of you who were discussing this - I had the following reply from
Wilfred
:50
Subject: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente
So he put it in D because he thinks it sounds better.
Rob
www.robmackillop.net
On 4 Nov 2011, at 19:14, Monica Hall [1]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk
wrote:
Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente
To those of you who were
: Friday, 4 November 2011, 19:50
Subject: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente
So he put it in D because he thinks it sounds better.
Rob
www.robmackillop.net
On 4 Nov 2011, at 19:14, Monica Hall [1]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk
wrote:
Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente
On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:29 PM, William Samson wrote:
Wasn't it Pascal who wrote Sorry this letter
is so long - I didn't have time to make it shorter.
Reverend fathers, my letters were not wont either to be so prolix,
or to follow so closely on one another. Want of time must plead my
excuse
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente
Ah! The gift of brevity! Wasn't it Pascal who wrote Sorry this
letter
is so long - I didn't have time to make it shorter.
Bill
From: Rob MacKillop [5]robmackil...@gmail.com
To: Monica Hall [6]mjlh
On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Ron Andrico wrote:
Not Pascal but good old George Bernard Shaw, who also reviewed concerts with
a certain measure of wit.
I've seen it attributed to Shaw, Mark Twain and Oliver Wendell Holmes, not very
specifically or reliably.
The Provincial Letters were a
I was going to ask the same thing!
But never mind Greek. What does 'diatessaron above the diapente' mean
in English?
Rob
On 30 October 2011 15:26, Jerzy Zak [1]jurek...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear friends,
In the Supplement to LUTE NEWS 99 there is a second part of Bach
On 30/10/2011 10:11 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote:
I was going to ask the same thing!
But never mind Greek. What does 'diatessaron above the diapente' mean
in English?
Literally a fourth above a fifth. It doesn't make much sense to me
either - wouldn't that be an octave?
stephen
if he replies.
Monica
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From: Rob MacKillop robmackil...@gmail.com
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Cc: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 5:11 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente
I was going to ask the same thing!
But never mind
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