[LUTE] Re: John Bull's Fantasy XII is Raga Yaman

2018-02-06 Thread Tristan von Neumann
> Those who would even want to listen are fools. Of course, those who wouldn't. Am 07.02.2018 um 06:48 schrieb Tristan von Neumann: I can't believe almost no one is excited about this discovery. All those who *still* doubt me, listen to this epic Raga Yaman accompanied by John Bull's Fantasy

[LUTE] John Bull's Fantasy XII is Raga Yaman

2018-02-06 Thread Tristan von Neumann
I can't believe almost no one is excited about this discovery. All those who *still* doubt me, listen to this epic Raga Yaman accompanied by John Bull's Fantasy XII. I did nothing but adjust the pitch and placement of the tracks. https://soundcloud.com/tristan-von-neumann/fantasy-xii-raga-yaman

[LUTE] Re: Mystery Solved: John Bull had contact with Indian Classical Music

2018-02-06 Thread Tristan von Neumann
"We" are not sure, however, how would two obscure pieces from Flanders change the course of a musical tradition of thousands of years... There are plenty of such attempts at crossover in the 19th century (Fantasy on Khambodian Music, Persian Melodies etc.), why not in the early 17th. And

[LUTE] Re: John Bull's Fantasy X is for Indian Voice and Archicembalo

2018-02-06 Thread Tristan von Neumann
Sweet! Thanks for the tip. The Fantasy might be good on the lute, because it's mostly 2 voices. The ambitus is admittedly very big. Or you can try and do the Indian part to the harpsichord with an Oud. Am 06.02.2018 um 11:06 schrieb David van Ooijen: William Hamilton Bird was a British

[LUTE] Re: Cherbury lute book

2018-02-06 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
Just a reminder : Jacques Gaultier fled to England c. 1617 because he had murdered a noble man on the Continent. As early as 1618 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for no clear reason... He got away with it and managed to get appointed as one of Henriette-Marie's musicians in 1625 and

[LUTE] Re: John Bull's Fantasy X is for Indian Voice and Archicembalo

2018-02-06 Thread David van Ooijen
William Hamilton Bird was a British cembalo player who lived and worked in India in the 18th century. He published a book with Hindustani Airs (Oriental Miscellany, 1789) set for cembalo. I arranged some of these pieces for lute and played these in India last November. David

[LUTE] Re: Cherbury lute book

2018-02-06 Thread G. C.
NB: Jacques Gaultier was not a relative of Ennemond or Denis. For pieces in Cherbury also listen to Jacob Lindberg's "Jacobean Lute Music" BIS-2055 (2013) G. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html