Antwort: FW: new pieces for lute

2005-02-08 Thread thomas . schall
Hi Ron, the c-minor fantasia is also on my page in the originial baroque version. http://www.lautenist.de/WeisscMoll.pdf Actually 11 courses are enough for this piece ... I'll copy some more of Martin's Weiss transcriptions into Fronimo when I finished copying the source I'm working on at

Antwort: Re: new pieces for lute - Zamboni

2005-02-08 Thread thomas . schall
Dear Ed, Gianoncelli is good. I also enjoy Melii (in spite of many printing mistakes) and Kapsberger. There are also some modern pieces out which makes well-sounding repertoire (to name an example: I like the settings of Satie published by TREE). By the way: Zamboni is nice and entertaining

Re: new pieces for lute - Zamboni

2005-02-08 Thread s.gliese
..maybe Milorad Romics: R.de Visee : 5 suiten in transcription für Archlute, or some of the music from the Goess-tabulatures. best wishes steffen gliese Ed Durbrow wrote: Actually Zamboni is flat and very simple music (often not much more than simple I-IV-V). Very entertaining but not comparable

Re: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Stephan Olbertz
I'd say: space slightly! Regards, Stephan Am Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:54:59 - schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I may have posed this question to the list in the past, but perhaps it is time to do so again. My admitedly limited survey of historical printed sources shows a diferent approach to

Re: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Markus Lutz
I also prefer to have spacing. It would be nice to have the possibility of changing the grade of it. Unfortunately that isn't possible in django and a little bit uncomfortable in fronimo at the moment. But if someone doesn't like it, at least in django he has the possibility to let the

Re: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Martin Shepherd
Markus Lutz wrote: It is necessary in my opinion to have the tablature as easy readable as possible. I agree - and modern spacing makes it much easier. If one wants to play as historical as possible there's no other way than playing from facsimile. Hmm I haven't seen too many music

Re: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Markus Lutz
Do I understand that correctly? You mean one should play by heart ;-). Or another (heretical) thought: the music stands are missing in paintings (and photos as well) because the would obscure the view to the musician ... Best Markus On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:55:34 +, Martin Shepherd wrote: MS

RE: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Francesco Tribioli
Fronimo's spacing is easy to achieve, if you know the parameters you are entereing (1.5 for most durations). This is how it will be in version 3.0 because the space between notes changes in a continuos way. In the 2.1 the space can change only in fixed steps and you have to set the number of

School of Musike

2005-02-08 Thread Allan
Hello Gang, I have posted a beautiful hardbound facsimile edition of schoole of musike by robinson on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3781498520 Allan To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Fwd: Re: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Markus Lutz
Now finally to the correct list -- Forwarded message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Lutz) To: baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu (Barocklauten-Liste), [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Martin, now again to you and the net. Your fwd hasn't made it way to the lute-net, as attachments

Re: Question for item #3781498520 - Thomas Robinson Lute Tablature Facsimile Beautiful Rare

2005-02-08 Thread Allan
Hello Ter, Hi. Excuse my ignorance, but what is contained in the book - Is it all lute tablature - are there songs, duets? Solo pieces by Robinson? This is a beautiful facsimile which was published back in 1603 The tablature is clear. Text at the beginning which is instruction. 90% solo

Re: Fwd: Re: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Martin Shepherd
Markus Lutz wrote: Indeed today we (at least I) are very used to read from sight. As I do read very easily I never tried to play by heart. Memorizing never was a favorite of mine. Me too. This is my point - we are so used to taking information from the printed page we don't give it a

Re: Music stands

2005-02-08 Thread Wayne Cripps
If one wants to play as historical as possible there's no other way than playing from facsimile. Hmm I haven't seen too many music stands in paintings of musicians from the Renaissance and Baroque - and most printed books have page turns in the middle of pieces as well!

Re: Music stands

2005-02-08 Thread James A Stimson
Dear Martin, Wayne and All, I believe there are some music stands depicted in paintings of the Baroque era, but I've never seen one in a Renaissance painting -- only music laying on tables as Wayne described. So when exactly did music stands enter the picture? Sometime after the development

Re: Music stands

2005-02-08 Thread Caroline Usher
At 11:36 AM 2/8/2005 -0500, James A Stimson wrote: Dear Martin, Wayne and All, I believe there are some music stands depicted in paintings of the Baroque era, but I've never seen one in a Renaissance painting -- only music laying on tables as Wayne described. So when exactly did music stands

Re: Music stands

2005-02-08 Thread timothy motz
To add to Caroline's comment: It was a common working practice from the Renaissance through at least the early 20th century for artists to accumulate drawings and watercolor paintings in sketchbooks as they traveled, worked on projects, etc. These sketches would be kept as resource material to

Re: Re: Music stands

2005-02-08 Thread corun
Wayne wrote: Not many stands - though some are pretty interesting - does a book leaned up on something count as a stand? Is there any iconography showing use of the ubiquitous bird house book stand as a music stand? Regards, Craig To get on or off this list see list information at

Re: Music stands

2005-02-08 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 01:18 PM 2/8/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any iconography showing use of the ubiquitous bird house book stand as a music stand? Here is an odd, folding stand in a 1746 painting by P. Longhi. Maybe a little late for the discussion at hand, but does this count? (I just like this

Re: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Alain Veylit
Hi all, Thanks to Dana for bringing up those questions: it is always a bonus for programmers when users and other programmers express their ideas on concrete matters like this. In fact, I have been feeling personally in the past year or two that perhaps I lost contact a little too much with the

Re: Music Stands

2005-02-08 Thread Steve Ramey
Hi All, Just me with my highly imperfect knowledge of music and history, but is it possible the use of music stands has something to do with the rise of ensembles larger than those that could comfortably gather around a table? Best, Steve -- To get on or off this list see list

Re: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Roman Turovsky
its final form for printing as you have it in mind. Being able to integrate a digital image in the program also makes it a lot easier, more reliable and less physically painful to key because you don't have to turn your head every other second. I have 2 monitors, so turning my head is not a

Montreal manuscript

2005-02-08 Thread Joachim Lüdtke
Thanks to anyone who responded to my query! I have now received a message from the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire in Montreal and: yes, there's a shelf number for that lute book now: MSS-1. Joachim -- Dr. Joachim Luedtke Frühlingsstraße 9a D - 93164 Laaber Tlf.: ++49 / +9498 / 905 188

Re: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Roman Turovsky
Well, there is another thing that keeps my going: playing with the software to create some really bad music... You can check my latest example of this at http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/Publications/Prelude/Prelude_orch.html - A prelude for archlute, bandoneon, cello, bass and tinkle bells...

Re: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Donatella Galletti
Alain said: Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:30 PM Subject: Re: horizontal spacing in tablature This is where it seems to me, in the past couple of years, a tendency has grown to consider that small software developers like me, who do it on the side of their real job, cannot possibly

Re: horizontal spacing in tablature

2005-02-08 Thread Leonard Williams
I prefer some degree of spacing, otherwise notes crossing strings in a phrase can appear to be stacked rather than linear. I currently use both Wayne's TAB and Christoph Dalitz's abctab2ps on my Mac. They are not all GUI and user friendly, but they offer variable horizontal spacing: TAB

Re: Music stands

2005-02-08 Thread Ed Durbrow
On the other hand, we mustn't forget that some artists at some periods used curved mirrors and the camera obscura to paint something that was very much like a photograph, although certainly not a snapshot. To add to Caroline's comment: It was a common working practice from the Renaissance

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2005-02-08 Thread Jon Murphy
Had some system problems, just testing. No answer needed. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html