On Dec 3, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Konstantin Shchenikov wrote: > My friends and me have played a concert. > Here is songs by John Dowland: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcleEbnXqCM > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycL4JaKHY6s > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AB54nH3Zac > > What do you think about it? Articulation of singer is not too "foreign"?
It sounds heavily accented, but he's remarkably clear, and more understandable than some native English speakers I've heard in Dowland. The actual mispronunciations can be a problem. He gets the "h" in "come heavy sleep" right, but sings "Shark you spirits that in shadows dwell" and "Happy, happy they that in shell feel not the world's despite" (tongue too high). Whether he wants to work on the vowels depends on whether he plans to sing to English-speaking audiences, I suppose. I don't know what to tell him about voiced and unvoiced sibilants. English spelling/pronunciation went insane in 1066 and has never made sense since. > And here is suite by de Visee (Pavel Filchenko - viola d'amour and my > continuo) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1IKn-Kg4e0 > > it's my second experience of continuo playing. On the whole, it's quite good. It sounds like your right hand got more comfortable as it went on. Some mistakes (and some good recoveries), obviously. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
