Must be some scandihoovian influence!
RT
From: "Edward Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks for the interesting story, Art!
ed
At 10:22 AM 3/4/2008 -0500, Arthur Ness wrote:
There was a time when "lutanist" seems to have been the accepted
spelling, although it makes me wince every time I see it. It was
a spelling that appeared in very respectable publications (NY
Times, Musical Times, Donna Curry). Perhaps lasting into the
1950s and 60s. I saw the spelling used as late as 1975 in _Early
Music_ and JAMS. In fact, while looking this morning, I came
across the spelling in regard to some lutanist mayhem as
described in a 17th century medical casebook quoted in _JAMS 32
(1975): 367:
>>Mr. Ashberrie (a lutanist) at night was bitten by Gottier,
the French Luteniste in Covent Garden, had a piece of his cheek
bitten out, an inch or more, on the left side at corner of the
mouth & neither [i.e. nether] lip, down to the lower part of the
jaw. I stiched it and dressed it.<<
This is a reference to James Gautier, lutenist to James I and
Charles I, who fled France in 1617 to escape the consequences of
a duel. It seems like an exceptionally large number of lutenists
were engaged in violence. Coming immediately to mind are S. L.
Weiss and Gian Maria
Alemani (you don't want to read the description of what he did to
some poor soul in Florence).
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Chalkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; "G. Crona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:20 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Etymology
| Lutenist and lute-player are fine by me. "Luthiste" is French,
and Lutanist
| is just bad spelling, I think.
|
| tony
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "G. Crona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: <[email protected]>
| Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:43 PM
| Subject: [LUTE] Etymology
|
|
| >I small question.
| >
| > To describe a person playing the lute, I've come across:
| >
| > Lutenist
| > Lutist
| > Lutanist
| > Lute-player
| >
| > Which is (are) the correct one (s)? All of them?
| >
| > G.
| >
| >
| >
| > To get on or off this list see list information at
| > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
| >
|
|
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