Dear All, I am extremely delighted with your discussion and this site. I just started playing the lute to have a look at the history of the guitar (also being an amateur with the latter). I joined the site in connection to learn a little bit, not expecting very much... Now I am amazed with the way beginners and the most advanced people take each other serious here - you may put simple questions and thoughts and are answered carefully by so interesting people, and then it goes on and on. As it seems the lute community is small, enthusiastic and very scholarly, which is a wonderful combination. As it seems I will stay a little longer than planned... Considering what I have already learned in one day about the galliard, I look forward to learn much more from here, from clicking your homepages, absorbing everything that seems worthwhile... the lute seems to inspire sophistication, awareness, creativity - nothing is readymade... I just love it. Thanks so much.
Cheers Franz ------------------------------------ Dr. Franz Mechsner Cognition and Communication Research Centre School of Psychology and Sport Science Northumbria University Northumberland Building Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST (UK) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)191 243 7479 Fax: +44 (0)191 227 3190 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 12 July 2009 20:28 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [LUTE] Re: The Galliard An Interesting thread on the Galliard, I think. The videos on youtube were enlightening. The jumps within the dance clearly require a tempo not too fast, but also not too slow, to allow the jump to be executed in tempo. Fun to watch, and more intersting than anything we did in dancing class! I would say that if the band is made up of just recorders and percussion (as in one of the videos), there's no practical limit as to how fast the music could be played - only a limit in how fast it could be danced. But the dancers could always modify their steps, I think, to match the tempos of the band. But too slow might be harder to accomodate than too fast; shorter jumps at a fast tempo, yes, but higher jumps at a slow one? Ned __________________________________________________________________ Looking for love this summer? [1]Find it now on AOL Personals. -- References 1. http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntuslove00000003 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
