Dear Arto, Thanks for your 'net article', very interesting.
Wouldn't a single 'tastini' be a tastino? ;-) Best Miles On 2011-08-19, at 1:32 PM, wikla wrote: > Dear Martin and all, > > in 1995 I wrote a small "net article" on V. Galilei's remarks on tastini, > see > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/fronimo.html > > Best, > > Arto > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:11:33 +0100, Martin Shepherd <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Er - it cost me at least twice that much, from that source. But worth >> it, I think. There is much in what Galilei says which has been >> overlooked, for instance the details of his remarks on temperaments and >> tastini are worth grappling with. >> >> Off to Nice tommorrow morning.... >> >> Martin >> >> On 19/08/2011 17:26, A. J. Ness wrote: >>> The McClintock translation is available from A-R Editions, agents for >>> the publisher, American Institute of Musicology (a private >>> organization, not the AMS). See their website. The price has >>> apparenty not been raised since the book appeared in the 1960s. It's >>> still about $25. Quite a bargain. >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> >>> To: "Martin Shepherd" <[email protected]> >>> Cc: "Lute List" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 12:04 PM >>> Subject: [LUTE] Re: [Le_luth] Dedillo >>> >>> >>>> "...the way the 7 course vihuela players did it was strictly >>>> mental- by >>>> tuning the 4th course down from f to e, and just "thinking" of it as > G >>>> instrument with a "high" treble course..." >>>> I have personally done this in situations requiring a D bass lute, >>>> (lute duets/ensemble, bass singers, playing a bass viol part) -but >>>> having only a 7-course tenor G lute available. It's a really fun >>>> mental >>>> kick when you finally fool yourself into feeling that your 1st course >>>> actually is a high 7th course. >>>> Dan >>>> __________________________________________________________________ >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >>> > >
