On 12/15/2012 3:06 PM, Dan Winheld wrote:
My verse is quite worse, When the lute gut strings feel thirst- Such dry winter air. On 12/15/2012 2:16 PM, Ron Andrico wrote:Mistakenly not posted to all: When pondering what lutenists should not Expend the few hours one has got, The writing of verse Seems quite the reverse Of tuning a string in its slot. Tuning a lute takes much time If one is to play quite sublime, So if one reflects On those things that do vex, Luters should leave off with rhymes. RA > Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:22:25 -0800 > To: [1][email protected] > CC: [2][email protected]; [3][email protected] > From: [4][email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Saturday quotes - Dowland's poem > > If you mean at the same time; > -Shaving with a straight razor in one hand and eating with chopsticks in > the other. But Thomas Campion- arguably at his less profound level than > Dowland- was better at being both poet & composer of songs. Never the > underlay problems such as found in so many of Dowland's second verses > and subsequent verses. But I still prefer Dowland. > > WOULD BE INTERESTING TO HAVE A LIST OF ACTION-PAIRS WHICH "SHOULD" NOT > BE PERFORMED BY ONE PERSON... :-) > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
