Lutenist Richard Stone will perform the four Bach lute suites on Tuesday,
September 21 at 8:00 in the St Mary Chapel of Boston College.
This is part of the Music at St Mary's series, sponsored by the
Jesuit Community and Music Department of Boston College.
Admission is free.
To reach
My favorite portrait of a lutenist is the engraving on the titlepage of
Sebastian Ochsenkhun's tablature book of 1558. There is a surprised look
of disgust on his face. You can almost hear the expletive he uttered at
that moment. Why? If you carefullly examine the engraving you'll find out
has
There is a published facsimile available for $26 from OMI
(immelsatpanix.com):
Libro di sonate diverse per liuto (Pietro Paulo Raimondi), introduction by
Oscar Tajetti (Como 1980). 196 pp.
ajn
By the way, there was a lutenist (ca. 1600) at the Wuerttemberg court
named, not Bernhard, but Georg Hofstetter. There is a piece by him in the
Donaueschingen MS G.1.4 (now in Stuttgart???), on folio 46v. The name is
written in Hebrew script. There's an article about him in the New Grove
It seems to me that it would be wise to avoid visiting web sites until this
latest virus has been taken care of. I think the pornography that Tom is
getting when he tries to download those Franciscque tracks may be a result
of this new virus.
Here are two messages from the CompuServe Virus
For a question like this, one should consult perhaps the most important
bibliography, Brown's Instrumental Musoic printed before 1600. He lists
some 44 original prints containing music for one or more voices and lute,
plus others for bandora and voice, cittern and voice, vihuela and voice,
etc.
Oh, I forgot to mention. You look in the Index arranged by Medium of
Performance to find all of the prints containing music for voice and lute.
That is such a dandy Bibliuographies. Actaaually is probably one of the
finest ever produced, and we are so fortunet to have it withlute music.
ajn
Gary Digman commented:=
Dear Ed;
And so was Galileo himself a lutenist. Or so I've heard.
Gary
He was indeed. There is a one-time reader of this
Dear Martyn,
Thanks for the clarification. I haven't looked at that edition in 20
years. Not all of the pieces are by Bottegari. It includes that fantasia
d'Incerto that some people think is by Francesco. It's really too
square to be Francesco's, and almost all of the original sources (three
Wasn't Per Brahe a famous astronomer? His lute book at the
Sklottsbiblioteket in Skokloaster was indeed copied when he was a student
in Giessen (about 1618). It is on the cusp of the baroque and contains
works by Dowland, Vallet, Bocquet, and so looks backward rather than
forward into the
Dear Stewart,
Thanks for clearing that up. I guess you couldn't get a more authoritative
voice than Chris's. But when I asked hm later, he said there had been no
change. I find nothing objectionable to the British calling its society
_The_ Lute Society. We all know that it is headquartered in
Yes, I saw the designation Lute Society of Great Britiain from someone on
this list, and thought the Society had altered its name. I can't remember
who it was, but it was someone I thought would be in a position to know.
When I wrote to Chris, I asked. He said there had been no change. I too
Dear Jon and lute net readers:
The message was a genuine warning from Chris Goodwwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
administrator of the Lute
Society of Great Britain (as they now call themselves). He was describing
some of the activities of
an international gang of thugs, who have embezzeled over 100
This is Chris's original message. It was not a hoax as some thought. AJN.
-- Forwarded Message --
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Lute Society member - read this and take heed! - Chris Goodwin
WARNING ABOUT FRAUD INVOLVING LUTES - PLEASE WARN EVERYONE YOU CAN THINK OF
ABOUT
Dear Danierl,
Stewart has already given a thorough answer to your question. Here is
something I wrote before receving his message.
What you have is the facsimile edition of the lute book copied by Mikulás
Smala z Lebensdorf (Nickolaus Schmall of Lebensdorf), scribe for Jaroslav
Borita, Baron of
There is a facsimile of all the Bataille volumes, $37.50 each, or all six
volumes for $150, listed in he catalogue of lute music issued by the von
Huene Workshop (aka New England Early Music Shop), for January 2003. This
is a free catalogue. For a copy, contact Eric Haas at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That should be _complEment._ Sorry.shudder
art
PS: Oh, dear. I corrected this (complement) before I sent it.
I am happy that Bernd was able to tell us more about this new facsimile.
The Schele Lute Book is
thought to have been copied by the Dutch lutenist Joachim van den Hove, and
contains many of his own compositions, as well as a wide
) and some
modern composers made works for overtonesinging.
Best wishes Thomas
Am Fre, 2004-05-07 um 01.02 schrieb Arthur Ness (boston):
Dear Thomas,As far as I know Shape Note notation and singing is an
American invention from around 1800, and was used primarily in singing
hymns (particularly
Dear Thomas,
As far as I know Shape Note notation and singing is an American invention
from around 1800, and was used primarily in singing hymns (particularly in
southern and midwestern churches). The earliest sytem has four syllables,
Fa, Sol, La, Mi, and is sometimes called Fasola. Now an F
Charlotte checked with Continental and was also able to get an inexpensive
flight from Boston. We had begun to despair because of the high travel
costs. We would have needed a roomette if we went by rail, which only
arrives in Cleveland at 3 a.m.! Even Greyhound is more expensive than the
This should be on the regular lute list, as well as the baroque list.
Stone's edition of the concertos will soon appear from the presses
of a major U.S. commercial publiaher, I understand.
ajn
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From: Roman Turovsky, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
TO:
Yes, Jon, this is music for that old-time religion. I expect the
practitioners today constitute a cult following, like those drum and bugle
corps who choreograph all their march steps, or the Barbershop Quartet
Society. I do know that Sacred Harp refers to an early collection of shape
note
Yes, AstroLogos is simply re-selling the UMI product. UMI (now ProQuest)
in Ann Arbor is the only firm authorized by the copyright owners to
reproduce the HUP edition oof FdaM's works. UMI's price $157, AstroLogos's
price $190. Even at $157price it is less expensive than gathering together
all
The mentioned reprint edition offered by AstroLogos for $190 is simply the
ProQuest (formerly UMI) product, not a separate repinting.
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From: beau, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: ajness, 71162,751
DATE: 5/3/04 5:32 PM
RE: Re: Collected Works of
There was some mention of this on the Lute List recently, and I thought
some might be interested in this convention. Besides it's free. Maybe Jon
will take it in and give us a report, since it _is_ called the Sacred
Harp.g I think shape note singing is still even more popular in the
South.
ajn
Hello Marco!
CONGRATULATIONS
You seem to have cracked a long-standing mystery in Cinquecento lute music.
Whether Knight of the Lute was one or more persons has nagged me and others
for ages. What a relief to have it solved after all those years. We all
look forward to reading your paper.
Has it been mentioned that there is a recitative and aria with lute
obbligato.in the St. Matthew. It is Nos. 65-6 (Komm süsses Kreuz). The
earliest version of the Passion calls for lute, but later versions use
viola da gamba, a particularly unfortunate choice because with all the
leaps the
They used a pen-like device that was made up of a sharp stylus on one
end and a sort of flat scraper on the other to smooth out the table (or
erase bits). The practice of using wax tablets started with the Romans and
lasted up until sometime in the 17th century. Here are some references;
Dear Ed,
I don't recall a Une jeune Fillette by Dowland. There is one by Vallet,
so it may be from the CNRS edition. Their ciphers are similar to the ones
in Poulton's edition. Unusual are the tie-like lines in the tabkature that
begin in measure 17. That is in a line that begins with measure
Ed Durbrow, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jason:
This report seems to come from a letter written about Milano. I read a
reference to this some time ago, the source now escapes me. I recall they
were something like silver thimbles. I know of no one who has
experimented
with this
Frank Longay has summer seminars for teachers of Suzuki Guitar in Saratoga,
Caifornia. Surely there must be other seminars.
http://www,longay.com
ajn
All my information is freely available. I would be very happy to have
it posted elsewhere.
On Feb 1, 2004, at 12:57 PM, arthur ness wrote:
May I post this to the lute list. There are persons there who would
be interested.
ajn
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 05:00:44 GMT, in
I think you have it backwards.
A bourdon (bordone, bordun) is a drone strung, that is, the ones that are
not fingered.
A diapason is the lower octave of a course doubled in octaves. (Diapason
means octave, right Farley?)
ajn.
Dear Taco, You wrote:
dear arthur, I answered a little bit short. Below some more
information. I've the two editions by arnaldo Forni editore. The first
edition is the facsimile of Intavolatura di lauto , milano 1548 together
with Borrono.
Of course, all of the concordances are givcen in
At 02:40 PM 12/10/2003 +0100, Spring, aus dem, Rainer
RSpringausdemee.toshiba.de wrote: How would you write 3 versus 5 in
tablature? I couldn't resist :)
MOpheeExcellent point, which tells why there is no liklihood of modern
composers using tablature.
RadSOf course, it is almost impossible
Dear Jerzy and Thomas,
I think we can go a bit beyond what Walther has to say, but Walther is
surely an excellent place to look for information on German baroque music.
I believe what Jerzy Zak is asking about is the French and Italian kinds of
gigues. The Italian one (giga) is usualy in
Yes, these are the two books (bound together) of frottole for voice (not
necessarily soprano) and lute arranged by Franciscus Bossinensis and publ.
by Petrucci in 1509 and 1511.
$US204,000 is indeed very high, but there is only one other copy known of
Libro II. In comparison a copy of
Editors, library cataloguers and others who have to deal with older
writings, recognize two kinds of titles or spellings of name.
A diplomatic title or name would be the spelling given in the old
original. (pauan, luys, Kapsperger)
The standard spelling would be an attempt to use a uniform
=
Arthur Ness (boston) 71162.751ompuserve.com schrieb: (I think
colieren [kolorieren] means ornamented, here.colieren in German
means to take special care of, cherish (hegen, pflegen). Nothing to do
with colour (but with cult).
RTspelled with K, kolieren means to strain
Dear José Luis,
You can sample the Gleimus work on a nicely played CD by Jürg Meili and
Thomas Schall, Galante Lautenduette (Lute Corner CD 0101). That is
Andreas Schlegel's firm and they surely have a web site. (Yes,
www.lutecorner.ch). The quality of this music is unusally high on this CD,
in
Wednesday Charlotte and I took the acela down to New Haven to hear our
LuteLister Kenneth Bé in a recital at Beinecke Rare Book Manuscript
Library at Kenneth's alma mater, Yale
University. From his undergraduate days, he harbored a secret wish to
present a recital devoted solely to music in
Mathias, I was going to post this to the group, but I've posted too much
already. Thought you'd be interesed, though. Arthur.
Mathias wrotefirst time I've been called Mat. I like it, though :)
Titles are of some importance in Austria. There, it is a matter of
politeness to correctly _use_ them
Peter Kiraly wrote
it is nice of you, that you mentioned my opinion, that the lute
tablature in British Library, Ms Sloane 1021, has been incorrectly
attributed to Johannes Stobaeus. To be frank I would like to state, that I
am not the only person, and definitely not the first one, who
There is a Minkoff facsimile available for $US65. According to my OMI
catallgue, it is still in print, Stewart.
Julia Sutton wrote her doctoral dissertation at Boston University on the
Novus Partus, and penned an article that appeared in the very first issue
of the Journal of the Lute Society
FROM: Roman Turovsky, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
. Previously he had been working in a garment co-op next to (and
living near) Kiev's Lutheran church in the Friedrich Engels Street (where
my father was baptized in 1933). Even earlier, in 1926 he married a lady
surnamed Saucheck (sic!),
Continued.Dear McCoy,He's Stewart. Stewart McCoy!
This has never been doubted.
RT
==
Dear Roman,
I meant no disrespect. Mr.(?) Ms.(?) S.Walsh doesn't understand that using
a person's last name is a form of affectionate address over here.
Charlotte
Continued.
Dear McCoy,
As for the lute manuscript itslef, during the chaos of World War_II a team
of Lithuanian nationalists broke into the Prussian State Archives in
Koenigsberg. They wanted to repatriate a national treasure, an old
manuscript containing an ancient Lithuanian epic poem. In
That 1574 lute book in German tabkature appears to have been printed in
Venice by Gardano in Italian tablature in 1576 and in 1595. Fetis mentions
one edition in his encyclopedia. But he is notorious for writing
misinformation. Or better said, information that cannot be verified. We
simply do
Doc,
I lost your message about the cittern composer. I have some non-information
to send you, but do not have your current e-mail address. Drop me a note
so I can send it.
Arthur.
A few years ago, one of our internationally touring recitalists did a
complete program devoted to Melchior Newsidler, son (not brother) of Hans.
He will probably have a CD one of these years. He's the type of player who
works on everything before deciding what to record. And there's a lot of
Opps. That was supposed to go directly to Markus.
Arthur.
Yes, I posted Bill Merdith's message to illustrate the perils of attempting
to equate old ecomonies with modern ones. The valid comparison would be
within one economy, perhaps in one geographical area. That's why I gave
the comparision (the only one I had at hand) between a ream of paper and a
This was posted to the musicology list, and may be of interest in light of
our recent discussions. I forgot to mention that there was a cponference
at NYU a few years back titled Thr Mu$ic Bu$ine$$ in the 18th Century.
John Kmetz organized it, but I had to leave before the interting paper on
the
snip
Jon Murphy write:
You are both right and wrong. It wasn't the lute per se that was
considered ungodly in the reformation, it was all music of the Catholic
liturgy.
ajnThere is little evidence of the use of lute in the Roman Rite. For
example, pictures of services seldom show a lute. But
Dear Stewart,
I must have missed the earlier message. I would second Stewart's
recommendation. Daniel Heartz is a brilliant musicologist and always has
crunchy thing to say about the music he studies. He also authored an
important bibliography of the music published by Pierre Attaiingnant.
I am going to look forward to finding out how Jon's flat back turns out and
if he likes it. But unlike him, I'm boycotting the World Series.. How can
anyone cheer a baseball team named after a fish?
Some one suggested a few weeks ago using dental abrasive to sand groves for
the strings. My
Robert,
This book in English was published in a French series, so you may be able
easily to find it in a local library.
There is a modern edition of La Magdalena and after dances with tablature
(by Pierre Blondeau from Dixhuit basses dances) is available in one of the
classic editions of lute
AJN write// Leopolis, the Latin name for that place.
MF//Not to split hairs but Leopolis would be the Greek name for that place.
//Mark Farley
Dear Mark,
It might be Greek to you and me, but it's Latin to most others. For
example, Leopolis _is_ the Latin name forr the Lemberg/Lwow Archdioces
FROM: Matanya Ophee, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
DATE: 10/13/03 5:02 PM
Re: Re: MO's attacks
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MOrphee woteUnfortunately for him and for his misguided predatory
philosophy, that is far from being the case. We should be grateful to him
and his ilk for the fact that the Franko
Donatella sent me a message saying she thought that perhaps the price in
quatrains was too low. I really can't say. I don;'t remember the original
message, but I think the price came from the catalogue of his library by
Ferdinand Columbus. Alas almst everything in his liobrary was destroyed in
I think if one were to investigate the price of score in the 16th century,
you would find that their high price made them accessible only to wealthy
persons. (And many professional lutenists were wealthy.) I once looked
into the price of high quality paper in 16th century Augsburg, paper of the
Rob MacKillop wrote:
Scuse me for being a bit bored by this discussion. It will go on
forever = and ever... If you like it, play it. If you don't, don't. But
please = don't present statements without going into the whole thing much
more = deeply. There are TWO different versions in the ms. The
Of course, I did not mean to suggest that a piece in New German keyboard
tabkature would be in a diatonic scale on D sharp. Just the lowered
(flatted) notes would be written as -is notes. In E flat major, the Eb
would be Dis (D#), the Ab would be Gis (G#) and the Bb would be Ais (A#).
An E flat
I may be mistaken but I believe F. W., Sternfeld, _Music in Shakespearean
Tragedy_ (London/New York, 1963)_ remains the best place to begin looking
for songs used in Shakespeare. The Willow Song occupies pages 24-52 in the
book, with 5 or 6 versions including several with tabkature in facsimile.
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