No, honestly, it does exist, and someone _did_ post a message in the last couple of months with the link. As it happens, I don't yet have a ukelele, but I thought this might be a fun place to start. I shall have to look on the archives.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lutelist" <[email protected]>; "Tony Chalkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 1:14 PM Subject: Re: weiss for ukulele > Tony, > > I would expect that you will get some foolish messages on this (to be > played > as Weisskiki, or whatever). But there are many instruments in the world - > and there have been many fine composers. An arrangement may be an > orchestration of a simpler piece, or it may be taking an orchestral score > and reducing it to fundmentals to play on a solo intrument, or in a > smaller > group. The ukelele is an instrument much maligned by those who didn't like > Arthur Godfrey (an "in joke" for the older among us). But it needn't play > only Hawaiian pop with chords strummed behind the vocal. It can play > anything set for four strings, just as I've tuned the five strings of my > charango to tunes I want to play. > > The name of the instrument is irrelevant to the music. What is relevant is > the range of pitch (the same melody may have quite a different "sound" in > a > higher register), the interval tuning of the courses (but if you have > incredible hands you can play anything in any tuning), and the timbre from > the size and shape of the instrument and the thickness of the soundboard - > as well as relative string tensions). > > Rearranging is easy, make your own arrangement of Weiss for ukelele. Look > at > the main lines (melody and counter melody and harmony). Play with it and > you > may come up with a better arrangement than the one you lost. > > Best, Jon > > >> Alittle while back someone sent a message about an arrangement of Weiss > for >> some ukulele. As I had already stumbled across it and downloaded it, I >> didn't keep the message - I now find that somewhere along the line I've > lost >> the download ;-( >> >> Can anybody help, please? >> >> Tony > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
