[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America

2013-06-23 Thread cetter
On 6/21/13 7:32 AM, Brad Walton gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca wrote: It was interesting to read of records concerning lutes in . New England. What records are you referring to? Are there records, i.e. documents, that mention a lute in present day New England, or in any of the British

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America

2013-06-23 Thread Arthur Ness
]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 12:01 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute in North America On 6/21/13 7:32 AM, Brad Walton [4]gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca wrote: It was interesting to read of records concerning lutes in . New England. What records are you

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America

2013-06-23 Thread Sean Smith
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute in North America On 6/21/13 7:32 AM, Brad Walton [4]gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca wrote: It was interesting to read of records concerning lutes in . New England. What records are you referring to? Are there records, i.e. documents, that mention a lute

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America

2013-06-21 Thread Brad Walton
Thanks, folks, for your information about lutes in North America. It was interesting to read of records concerning lutes in New France and New England. I had imagined it highly unlikely that no lutes had made it over the Altantic during the seventeenth century, but I had never come across

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-21 Thread Tobiah
Here's a groovy little club of which I'm quite fond: http://www.iaglr.org/. The name was obviously mangled to accommodate the catchy acronym that sounds like 'eye ag ler'. If the organization weren't paying so much attention to the acronym, they might have come up with a more suitable name:

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-21 Thread Braig, Eugene
Hmmm... Eugene -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Tobiah Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 12:39 PM To: Braig, Eugene Cc: lute mailing list list Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute in North America? Here's a groovy little club of which

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-20 Thread Leonard Williams
Was there not a baroque Mass composed in Mexico City? That might indicate a level of musicality in Old Mexico that would attract a lute. Regards, Leonard Williams On 6/19/13 8:09 PM, Eloy Cruz eloyc...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Brad, List If Mexico is part of North America, yes. In the sacristy

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-20 Thread Eloy Cruz
Dear Leonard The oldest known mass from New Spain is from late 16th century. The newest, well, from the 19th. Cheers eloy Sent from my iPhone On 20/06/2013, at 17:23, Leonard Williams arc...@verizon.net wrote: Was there not a baroque Mass composed in Mexico City? That might indicate a

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-19 Thread Bruno Fournier
Hi Brad, A Robert Derome from University of Quebec has done quiteA a bit of research on the lute in New France ( Quebec) in the 17th century.A you might want to contact him.A I don't know if he's on this list. A Here is the webiste on Lute in New France: A sorry

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-19 Thread Edward Martin
Hello Bruno, I saw this thread, and it did not occur to me the connection in my home town. I reside in Duluth Minnesota; Duluth is at the far eastern side of Lake Superior, the largest lake on this planet. If my memory is correct, the year was 1679, in which the French explorer, Daniel

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-19 Thread Braig, Eugene
: Lute in North America? Hello Bruno, I saw this thread, and it did not occur to me the connection in my home town. I reside in Duluth Minnesota; Duluth is at the far eastern side of Lake Superior, the largest lake on this planet. If my memory is correct, the year was 1679, in which the French

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-19 Thread howard posner
On Jun 19, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Braig, Eugene brai...@osu.edu wrote: Total irrelevancy alert: Lake Superior only the largest lake in the world by surface area, not by volume. It is a part of a large system, the Laurentian Great Lakes, that do constitute the largest freshwater system in the

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-19 Thread Eloy Cruz
Dear Brad, List If Mexico is part of North America, yes. In the sacristy of the Mex-City cathedral, in churches of towns like Nurio and Cocucho in the State of Michoacan, in the town of Tlacochahuaya (? I'm not sure this is the town's name) and in several poems. I think there's even mention of a

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-19 Thread Braig, Eugene
Ha! Eugene From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] on behalf of howard posner [howardpos...@ca.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:33 PM To: lute mailing list list Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute in North America? On Jun 19, 2013, at 4

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-19 Thread mike murray
Milan Kovacovic, my French prof at the university of Minnesota Duluth, insisted that there wasn't an association between Greysolon and the lute because he somewhere signed his name as Dulhut. I think I also saw his name spelled in contemporaneous documents as Duluth, however On