Oh yes Gordon!
I was visitor at a diploma recital in Zurich recently. She has the
perfect pitch. The good thing for her was: she could just starting to
sing without a note given by piano or harpsichord.
Her program changed between A=415 for Purcell and other early music (I
really liked the parts
Dear Stewart,
You are absolutely a mine of information! I enjoy reading your
postings because I know that even after my 24 years of luteplaying, I
can stll learn something new from them.
...I'm sorry to be so predictable on the we've discussed it before.
Part of me says, Don't say that,
Hi -
so there are questions about using jello as glue... well here is
my experience based on gluing the bridge back on a cheap
ukulele and gluing the peg box back on my lute..
1) using hide glue is tricky, try it on scrap wood until you get the feel
for it.
2) this discussion really
And Gordon, with no insult to your intelligence intended, I think your
professor at McGill (my father's alma mater) had perfect relative
pitch rather than perfect pitch. Just the fact that you say it was
tunable.
Actually Bruce does have perfect pitch, because he can write down by
ear most
Wayne,
Lots of guys set up a low budget rig whereby they direct the flame from the torch into
and through a piece of 2 pipe 8 - 12 long. Mostly this is used as a bending iron
to aid in bending wood for instrument ribs. With a little prior planning, it keeps
the flame away from anything that
I've noticed several Dowland pieces with titles honoring governmental and
military figures (the Earl of Essex, a naval admiral, etc.).
The dedications strike the modern taste as greasy -- none of us would
compose a marching band piece (much less a lute piece) personally to a
distant military or
Herbert wrote:
I've noticed several Dowland pieces with titles honoring governmental and
military figures (the Earl of Essex, a naval admiral, etc.).
The dedications strike the modern taste as greasy -- none of us would
compose a marching band piece (much less a lute piece) personally to a
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to whose worldview? Just because it isn't done as frequently
since the days of John Phillip Sousa doesn't mean it's entirely beyond
the pale.
We seem to agree that it's done less frequently today than in the past,
and that is enough for
According to whose worldview? Just because it isn't done as frequently
since the days of John Phillip Sousa doesn't mean it's entirely beyond
the pale.
We seem to agree that it's done less frequently today than in the past,
and that is enough for my purposes.
You think dedicating a piece
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 01:47 PM, Herbert Ward wrote:
I've noticed several Dowland pieces with titles honoring governmental
and
military figures (the Earl of Essex, a naval admiral, etc.).
The dedications strike the modern taste as greasy -- none of us would
compose a marching
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 02:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to whose worldview? Just because it isn't done as frequently
since the days of John Phillip Sousa doesn't mean it's entirely beyond
the pale.
I guess nowadays people have high schools named after them rather
Am Don, 2004-02-12 um 21.33 schrieb Roman Turovsky:
According to whose worldview? Just because it isn't done as frequently
since the days of John Phillip Sousa doesn't mean it's entirely beyond
the pale.
We seem to agree that it's done less frequently today than in the past,
and
According to whose worldview? Just because it isn't done as frequently
since the days of John Phillip Sousa doesn't mean it's entirely beyond
the pale.
We seem to agree that it's done less frequently today than in the past,
and that is enough for my purposes.
You think dedicating a piece to
Wow! The question is whether this is a blessing or a
curse...
Stephan
Am 12 Feb 2004 um 11:41 hat Gordon J. Callon
geschrieben:
And Gordon, with no insult to your intelligence intended, I think
your professor at McGill (my father's alma mater) had perfect
relative pitch rather than
It seems to me that we often make the mistake of judging activities in other
cultures as though they were taking place in out own.
Remember, Elizabethan England was a police state - I think I would have
spent most of my time saying things like, yes, Boss. A little toadying can
certainly be
Of course you are right, but it seems to be fact that until the world
wars politics used music to demonstrate their support for culture. This
now seems to have been become unpopular.
On the other hand during election campaigns Rock stars are very much
asked by politicians. Just something I'm
Herbert Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed several Dowland pieces with titles honoring governmental and
military figures (the Earl of Essex, a naval admiral, etc.).
How does one explain this striking difference in taste? Does a monarchist
mindset produce such servility? Perhaps
So the answer to your question of how to account for this difference in
taste is that taste has little to do with it. The political and social
reality has changed. Most of us are raised with the idea that everyone is
equal. In Dowland's time, such an assertion might have been construed as
Dear Herbert:
The pieces in question were written at a time when professional musicians
had patrons. The higher placed the patron/employer the greater the income.
In Dowland's case he circulated around people who were high placed at court
in an effort to get an appointment as one of the Queen's
Yes - and they were obsessed therefore ...
Although Howard's post is acurate as ever I'm not sure if I would like
to follow him this time telling artists servile. If you read what has
survived from them I'm very sure they were very self confident as
artists and to a certain degree as
At the website Wayne led us to for information on hide glue, I found the
folowing reference to what
is being called at the site The World's Oldest Guitar. Anybody have anymore useful
information about this
critter?
http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/History/Diaz1590/diaz1590.html
Regards
Roman Turovsky at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most of us are raised with the idea that everyone is
equal. In Dowland's time, such an assertion might have been construed as
treason.
Didn't Quakers professed such a treasonous belief?
Something like it, and they drew a lot of heat for it. The
Thomas,
On the other hand during election campaigns Rock stars are very much asked
by politicians.
True. In fact, Steven Stills performed to presumably warm up the audience
for John Kerry in Phoenix about a week ago on primary day. Fortunately his
gorgeous-sounding Martin guitar drowned out
Does anyone know a website where I may download all the words of the
madrigals from _The Triumphs of Oriana_ (London, 1601)?
Stewart McCoy.
Dear Gordon,
Many thanks for mentioning these English manuscripts, which confirm
that the practice of writing transposing parts for the singer was
still common in 17th-century England (c. 1630).
Coincidentally my facsimile of Ob Mus. Sch. f. 575 was sitting on
the table immediately behind me as
Dear Thomas,
I think Herbert Ward's Greasy is the wrong word. There is nothing
wrong with a bit of respect within the conventions of one's society.
Greasy implies excessive and inappropriate servility, as with
Dickens' Uriah Heep.
Dowland and others were servile, because they had to be to
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 06:32 PM, Thomas Schall wrote:
Nevertheless the individal did not had the importance it has today and
therefore artists of the renaissance would have seen their social and
intellecutal role very different to what we are used to seeing it
today.
Well, yes
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 08:25 PM, Stewart McCoy wrote:
...The 2nd fret on the 1st course of my lute vibrates to give a'=440.
It will vibrate 440 times per second, whether I call it a' on a G
lute, b' on an A lute, or e' on a bass lute in D.
So if you tune your G lute down a
A matter of manners as well as position. If you look at letters between
peers (equals) of the 18th and 19th century you will see them signed with
phrases like your humble and obediant servant (usually abbreviated). To
view the conventions of the past with the eyes of the present is always a
Regarding the titles of pieces that are addressing the names of
various nobility:
I assume that some such titles are intended to be simple literal
descriptions. Many surviving dances and other pieces were originally
composed for various masques and other entertainments that occupied
much of
Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote
..
Please could you tell us a little bit more about Ob Broxbourne 84.9.
It is not included in the Garland facsimile series, and I was unaware
of its existence.
..
Ob Broxbourne 84.9 is a manuscript that I found, or rather Peter Ward
Jones showed to me after
Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote
..
Please could you tell us a little bit more about Ob Broxbourne 84.9.
It is not included in the Garland facsimile series, and I was unaware
of its existence.
..
Ob Broxbourne 84.9 is a manuscript that I found, or rather Peter Ward
Jones showed to me after
Roman,
OSHA is not very good at what they do. I await the study (probably from
Canada) that says that too much oxygen is toxic in rats. A toxin is
specifically a poison, as in snake venom. Then there are the substances that
are poisonous yet may be useful in low doses for certain conditions, such
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