[LUTE] Re: Liuto Forte

2006-07-29 Thread gary digman
I wonder if lutenists of the 15th and early 16th centuries felt the same about the introduction of the 7, 8 and 10 course instruments, not to mention the theorbos, attorbiatos etc., as some of us seem to feel about the liutos forte, ruby gambas, arch guitars, etc. Also regarding Julian

[LUTE] Re: Historical amplification

2006-07-29 Thread gary digman
Sorry, Stewart. I meant to send this to the lutelist, not you personally. Gary - Original Message - From: gary digman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 2:43 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Historical amplification There is an English

[LUTE] Re: Liuto Forte

2006-07-29 Thread Roman Turovsky
I wonder if lutenists of the 15th and early 16th centuries felt the same about the introduction of the 7, 8 and 10 course instruments, not to mention the theorbos, attorbiatos etc., as some of us seem to feel about the liutos forte, ruby gambas, arch guitars, etc. Also regarding Julian

[LUTE] Re: Liuto Forte

2006-07-29 Thread Edward C. Yong
Good gentles, This thread brings to mind a concert in April where I was asked to provide archlute continuo for Albinoni's D minor Oboe Concerto and Vivaldi's A minor Cello Concerto. I agreed, then found out to my horror a week before the concert that the modern string orchestra numbered about

[LUTE] Re: F D Burleigh/Liestman NSP set for sale or trade.

2006-07-29 Thread John Liestman
Since I was mentioned, I will comment. First, I have no financial interest in this set or the effort to sell it. This is a pretty darn nice set of Burleigh pipes with better-than-typical finish and tuning (which I did adjust also). The Liestman parts of the set are the reeds (all new) and the

[LUTE] Re: Historical amplification

2006-07-29 Thread corun
Dear Stewart, Stewart McCoy wrote: However, I haven't pursued it, because 1) I find it hard to keep the lute steady, when it is on the table, and there is no need at home for the sound to be amplified. That would appear to be a major concern. Chris mentioned that the other position shown in

[LUTE] Re: Liuto Forte

2006-07-29 Thread Bernd Haegemann
similar even if wrong sound? I think simply doesn't exist an archlute that can win against such an orchestra. Actually even a guitar is easily overwhelmed by a quartet of modern strings. The past year I've listened to the integral of the Boccherini's quartets with guitar and the guitar was

[LUTE] Re: Lutes in church

2006-07-29 Thread G. Crona
Don't the secular start with BWV 201? - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 1:41 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lutes in church Indeed classified as such, but composed for the

[LUTE] Re: Liuto Forte

2006-07-29 Thread David Rastall
On Jul 29, 2006, at 5:33 AM, gary digman wrote: I wonder if lutenists of the 15th and early 16th centuries felt the same about the introduction of the 7, 8 and 10 course instruments, not to mention the theorbos, attorbiatos etc., as some of us seem to feel about the liutos

[LUTE] Vallet translation?

2006-07-29 Thread Ed Durbrow
Has anyone translated into English the Petit discours at the beginning of Vallet's Le Secret des Muses? Thanks, Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Liuto Forte

2006-07-29 Thread Howard Posner
Roman Turovsky wrote: There are some other players that use hybrid single-strung instruments that are almost L-F. Tim Burris uses a single strung lute set up as liuto-forte http://baroquelute.com/Archives.html Stubbs, Moreno and some others do something of the sort too. And Luciano

[LUTE] Re: Liuto Forte

2006-07-29 Thread Roman Turovsky
There are some other players that use hybrid single-strung instruments that are almost L-F. Tim Burris uses a single strung lute set up as liuto-forte http://baroquelute.com/Archives.html Stubbs, Moreno and some others do something of the sort too. And Luciano Contini's wire-strung

[LUTE] Re: Liuto Forte

2006-07-29 Thread Howard Posner
On Saturday, Jul 29, 2006, at 09:06 America/Los_Angeles, Roman Turovsky wrote: This is conceptually different from taking the concept of the lute and redesigning it to be louder, on the model of the modifications made to pianos and violins in the 19th century, which is the idea behind the

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Koyunbabaroque

2006-07-29 Thread sterling price
I assume the person played it on baroque lute because the piece uses a a guitar tuning that is similar to the d minor tuning. Must have been fun. Sterling Price --- Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, Jul 29, 2006, at 05:52 America/Los_Angeles, Roman Turovsky wrote: I

[LUTE] Re: rotten, tune-less Kit

2006-07-29 Thread marigold castle
I tried Oxford's Sixteenth Century Verse but that only has one poem by Joshua Sylvester and those lines aren't in it. Ditto my other poetry anthologies. Hopefully, someone with a more extensive 16th-17th cen. poetry library will be able to find that poem for you. Michal Spring,

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Koyunbabaroque

2006-07-29 Thread Howard Posner
On Saturday, Jul 29, 2006, at 05:52 America/Los_Angeles, Roman Turovsky wrote: I am not familiar with Domeniconi's music. I'm impressed that you've managed to avoid Koyunbaba, given its monster-hit status in the classical guitar world for the last 15 or so years. Does anyone have or has

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Koyunbabaroque

2006-07-29 Thread G. Crona
- Original Message - From: Matanya Ophee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: rec.music.classical.guitar Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:39 AM Subject: Koyunbabaroque Just when I though I have heard everything! A couple of days ago, at Clare Callahan's Summer School in Cincinnati, I heard a