lute music in paintings

hi al, looking at caravaggios luteplayer i wonder what this guy is playing. we discussed lute and lute paintings some month (years) ago. but what are these players playing? mostly i noticed that the music is notated in mensural notation (!) and sometimes the music is excellent readable (holbein).

je ne scay

hi all, some days ago i played a little bit through attaignant 1529 and discovered the wonderful intabulation of destre amoureux. a real ear candy. i remember, i heard something very close to this on an old tape of the king singers: antoine mornable je ne scay with robert spencer (!), lute (and a

R: HIP, Renbourne ODette

http://www.cbsr.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/Publications/Unicorn/Unicorn.xml hi, i enjoyed very much these arrangements, especially lamento and the correspondent rotta. the originals can be found on the following sides: http://www.spielleyt.de/facsimile.htm http://www.spielleyt.de/musik.htm are there other

Re: A lute's moment of truth

moinmoin, during lunchtime i tested my gerle lute. it is a well sounding instrument built by renatus lechner (http://www.renatus-lechner.de/). this lute has a very strong resonance around C at a=415. a=415 is the tuning renatus lechner advices for this lute. greetings wolfgang w. p.s. another

arthur ness HUP edition

hi all, i just found this in: http://www.zvab.com/SESSz33821173311083653933/gr2/en/index.html? Ness, Arthur J. (ed.): The Lute Music of Francesco Canova da Milano (1497-1543) Volumes I and II, Cambridge Harvard University Press 1970 Harvard Publications in Music 3 and 4. Folio. original wraps.

Re: # 2 lute question

Changing the area of the opening will effect the Helmholtz resonance. If you sing a rising tone over the sound hole of your lute you will find a certain note that gets very much louder. (damp the strings) i did it: my old lute responsed at C my new one at D with damped strings. w.

Re: ren lute scale studies ?

dear chris, at the end of the siena lutebook are some exercises in different modes, they are called fantasias (if i remember right) but they are pure scale exercises. w.

Re: chilesotti #55

hi all, i just got the following answer to my question: The text (in 4 partes) by Luigi Tomasillo should be in _Giaches de Wert: Opera omnia,_ ed. Carol MacClintock and Melvin Bernstein, Corpus mensurabilis musicae, ser. 24, vol. 4 (Madrigals of 1567), 65. However, the music arranged in

chilesotti #55

hi, i need translation-help for the beautiful song from chilesotti #55: a caso un giorno mi guido la sorte in un bosco di quercie ombroso e spesso ove giacea un pastor ferito a morte is this the only strophe? greetings from old europe wolfgang w.

Re: Latin translation

hi, i just read that the german (tyrole) name of cardinal Christoph Madruzzo is Madrutsch. wolfgang w.

Re: Latin translation

brixen = bressanone (ancient = pressena...) south tyrol in italy is bilingual german/italian Dr. Wolfgang Wiehe Zentrales Analytisches Labor BTU-Cottbus []\ (_) www.zal.tu-cottbus.de

Re: How long can a lute last?

hi, i heard some weeks ago from my lute builder, that he tried some 10 years ago to build lighter and thinner lutes (around 400g-lutes). this instruments lasted some years with a good sound but than the sound died away (not the lute!). greetings w.

Re: Holbein, addendum

hi sean, the globe is a real globe a painting-copy of The globe is close to one produced by Johannes Schöner at Nuremberg in 1523. The map includes a representation of the New World. It also shows the line demarcating the division of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial possessions that was

luteplayer painting

hi, yesterday i looked through the cataloge of the berliner gemäldegalerie and found a thumbnail of a female luteplayer painted by hemessen or an anonymus. did someone has a larger print of this painting? on the right of this painting is an open lutebook/musicbook. but my reproduction is too small