sounds good, Jason, but the crucial question is: how is the legibility when you print them out?
thanks Dante > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Yoshida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Vihuela Songs - cd-rom > > > I just got the cd-rom with the 7 vihuela books yesterday. You can get it > from Los Angeles Classical Guitars. www.lacg.net > The cd-roms are not posted on the website yet because they received the > shipment on the same day I was there. Just call or email them to buy the > Cd-Rom. I think it was about six-eight or seventy-dollars. > It is a really nice Cd-rom and it comes with an eighty-six page booklet > (in Spanish). The facsimiles are accessed through a navigational GUI > program. You can also print from it. I think the program is a bit clumsy > to navigate if you are trying to play from the screen. Maybe I have not > figured it out yet, but you cannot go to the next page when the pages > are shown at full size. You have to return to the index. I also think > you cannot size fit taller pages to fit on the computer screen. Maybe I > need to play with it more but it's probably better not to spend a lot of > time reading music from a CRT. The reproductions are very clear. > The really wonderful part about this publication, besides having all of > the main vihuela books, is that the pieces for vihuela and voice are > reproduced in color. You can see the vocal melody notated as red numbers > in the tablature. > > Regards, > Jason Yoshida > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Monica Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:30 AM > To: Stewart McCoy > Cc: lutenet > Subject: Re: Vihuela Songs > > The Charles Jacobs Milan edition was published by Pennsylvania State > U.P. > in > 1971. The Leo Schrade edition of Milan originally published by Breitkopf > & > Hartel and reprinted by Georg Olms in 1976 (still available I think) > does > have both tablature with the voice part in italics and a transcription > > The problem with Charles Jacobs, and the MME volumes is that the music > is > sometimes transcribed in odd keys due to a misunderstanding about the > instructions which appear at the beginning of many of the pieces which > match > them to the hexachordal system. A list of Vihuela tablature - > facsimiles > and complete editions compiled by yours truly is in the October 2002 > issue > of > Lute News. > > The CDROM should be on sale at the Lute Society meeting in London on > Saturday - price �36. > > Monica > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stewart McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Lute Net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:01 AM > Subject: Vihuela Songs > > > Dear David, > > Charles Jacobs has edited Luys Milan's _El Maestro_. I'm afraid I > don't have a copy to hand, so can't provide all the bibliographical > details. He also edited Fuenllana's _Orph�nica Lyra_. I looked at > this book the other day to check something out, so have the details > jotted down: Miguel de Fuenllana, _Orph�nica Lyra_, ed. Charles > Jacobs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978). A transcription of > the vihuela music of Narvaez and Valderr�bano were published as part > of the Monumentos series. > > -o-O-o- > > Talking of the vihuela, a message has just been posted to the > Spanish Vihuela Mailing List by Carlos Gonz�lez. He is selling CD > Roms of all seven printed books of vihuela music in facsimile for a > mere 60 euros, or 50 euros for members of a lute society. The > contact address is > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I could pass on a copy of his e-mail (in Spanish), which he sent to > the Vihuela List, but I don't know if it is acceptable to copy > messages from one list to another like that. > > Wayne, please could you tell me if it would be in order to do this? > > Best wishes, > > Stewart. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Rastall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:06 AM > Subject: Vihuela Songs > > > > Hi Luters, > > > > Are there any modern editions available of Spanish vihuela songs? > I > > have the Mudarra facsimile, which has some songs in it, but I'm > > wondering what there is available in modern edition of songs of > other > > 16th-century Spanish composers (unfortunately, my Milan "El > Maestro" is > > a black-and-white facsimile, so I can't tell where the vocal lines > are). > > > > I'm also wondering where I can find Bossinensis and Bottegari lute > > books in modern editions. Any suggestions, anyone? > > > > Regards, > > > > David Rastall > > > > > > > > > > > >
