Thanks=2C David. I stand corrected.
Ron Andrico
www.mignarda.com> Date: Mon=2C 28 Jul 2008 23:42:26 -0700> To:
[email protected]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: More on
lute songs> > 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
pro!
fit 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 an!
d the continuo songs of Purcell.> >>>> >>> > > David> >>>> >>>> >>>
****************************> >>> David van > > Ooijen> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> www.davidvanooijen.nl> >>> > > ****************************> >>>> >>>> >>>
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