Dan Heartz is an accomplished lute player. dt
> >One thing to bear in mind is that no musicologist of that generation >actually played the lute. Playing transcriptions of the music on >the piano might give one an overall sense of the music but the >'sound world' of the instrument makes a tremendous difference in the >overall communicative experience of playing or hearing music on the lute. > >Best wishes=2C > >Ron Andrico > >www.mignarda.com > > > > Date: Sun=2C 27 Jul 2008 12:02:30 +0200> To: > [email protected]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [LUTE] > Re: More on lute songs> > The Spink book is depressing because he > doesn't like the music. Open the> book at random:> > "The > conclusion seems inescapable then=2C that Blow=2C as a song > writer=2C fails> at all levels ... he just has not got what it > takes" (p. 251)> > "There is=2C however=2C little to say in favour > of Francis Forcer=2C whose> numerous songs are among the feeblest > written by any composer of the period"> (p.178)> > "[Lanier] shows > incompetence=2C or=2C at least=2C misjudgement in his handling of> > words and a rather jejune taste" (p. 106)> > "Many of the contents > of [Pilkington's] First Booke of Songs (1605) are> rather turgid" > (p.33)> > And so on. Miserable. Frankly=2C I would avoid Spink and > spend the time on> the music instead.> > P> > > > > 2008/7/27 > LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > Bruno wrote:> >> > Thanks > for the info! Is the book from Ian! > Spink still availlable? I only> >> find used ones...> >>> >> > I > wouldn't know. I found mine 18 years ago=2C new=2C in 'De > Slegte'=2C the Dutch> > bookshop that stocks what we call shop > daughters: remains from normal shops> > and publishers that are > sold cheaply as the profit for the production of the> > first print > has been made. It's cheaper for the publishers to sell these> > > under normal price and to make room in their warehouses for new > books than> > to keep these in stock. But a decent library should > have it for you. The> > Musica Britannica can also be found in any > decent library. These volumes are> > rather expensive: something > like 130 euros I think.> >> > David - finds his own cds as shop > daughters occasionally =3B-)> >> >> >> > > ****************************> > David van Ooijen> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > www.davidvanooijen.nl> > > ****************************> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> > There's a nice little booklet by Ian Spink on the repertoire you're> >>! > > interested in. It's called 'English Song=2C Dowland to Purce! > ll' (Batsford=2C> >>> London 1974). And check out the MB series > part XXXIII: English Songs> >>> 1625-1660 (edited by the same Ian > Spink) for a taste of what happenend> >>> between the lute songs of > Dowland and the continuo songs of Purcell.> >>>> >>> > David> >>>> >>>> >>> ****************************> >>> David van > Ooijen> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> www.davidvanooijen.nl> >>> > ****************************> >>>> >>>> >>> To get on or off this > list see list information at> >>> > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html<http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html>> > > >>>> >>>> >> --> >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > Peter Martin> Belle Serre> > La Caulie> 81100 Castres> France> tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46> e: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: www.silvius.co.uk> > http://absolute81.blogspot.com/> www.myspace.com/sambuca999> > www.myspace.com/chuckerbutty> > -- >_________________________________________________________________ >Time for vacation? WIN what you need- enter now! >http://www.gowindowslive.com/summergiveaway/?ocid=tag_jlyhm >-- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
