Nice one! .. And, just in case someone of you would like to travel a thousand years farther back in time from the Golden Age of Lute music for cat inspiration, here is some piece of heroic poetry that can be chanted with dramatic voice while plucking pentatonic improvisation on a six-stringed lyre:
After Beowulf, now Beocat https://bertc.com/subfour/truth/beocat.htm J. 2018-01-29 17:03 GMT+01:00 Leonard Williams <arc...@verizon.net>: > Advisory on cats and lutes: > > On Lutestrings Catt-Eaten. > [Thomas Master, 1603-1643] > > Are these the strings that poets feigne > Have clear'd the Ayre, and calm'd the mayne? > Charm'd wolves, and from the mountaine creasts > Made forests dance with all their beasts? > Could these neglected shreads you see > Inspire a Lute of Ivorie > And make it speake? Oh! think then what > Hath beene committed by my catt, > Who, in the silence of this night > Hath gnawne these cords, and marr'd them quite; > Leaving such reliques as may be > For fretts, not for my lute, but me. > Pusse, I will curse thee; may'st thou dwell > With some dry Hermit in a cell > Where Ratt neere peep'd, where mouse neere fedd, > And flyes goe supperlesse to bedd; > Or with some close-par'd Brother, where > Thou'lt fast each Saboath in the yeare; > Or else, prophane, be hang'd on Munday, > For butchering a mouse on Sunday; > Or May'st thou tumble from some tower, > And misse to light upon all fower, > Taking a fall that may untie > Eight of nine lives, and let them flye; > Or may the midnight embers sindge > Thy daintie coate, or Jane beswinge > Thy hide, when she shall take thee biting > Her cheese clouts, or her house beshiting. > What, was there neere a ratt nor mouse, > Nor Buttery ope? nought in the house > But harmlesse Lutestrings could suffice > Thy paunch, and draw thy glaring eyes? > Did not thy conscious stomach finde > Nature prophan'd, that kind with kind > Should staunch his hunger? thinke on that, > Thou caniball, and Cyclops catt. > For know, thou wretch, that every string > Is a catt-gutt, which art doth spinne > Into a thread; and how suppose > Dunstan, that snuff'd the divell's nose, > Should bid these strings revive, as once > He did the calfe, from naked bones; > Or I, to plague thee for thy sinne, > Should draw a circle, and beginne > To conjure, for I am, look to't, > An Oxford scholer, and can doo't. > Then with three setts of mopps and mowes, > Seaven of odd words, and motley showes, > A thousand tricks, that may be taken > From Faustus, Lambe, or Fryar Bacon: > I should beginne to call my strings > My catlings, and my mynikins; > And they recalled, straight should fall > To mew, to purr, to catterwaule > From puss's belly. Sure as death, > Pusse should be an Engastranith; > Pusse should be sent for to the king > For a strange bird, or some rare thing. > Pusse should be sent to farre and neere, > As she some cunning woman were. > Pusse should be carried up and downe, > From shire to shire, from Towne to Towne, > Like to the camell, Leane as Hagg, > The Elephant, or Apish nagg, > For a strange sight; pusse should be sung > In Lousy Ballads, midst the Throng > At markets, with as good a grace > As Agincourt, or Chevy-chase. > The Troy-sprung Brittan would foregoe > His pedigree he chaunteth soe, > And singe that Merlin - long deceast - > Returned is in a nyne-liv'd beast. > Thus, pusse, thou seest what might betyde thee; > But I forbeare to hurt or chide thee; > For may be pusse was melancholy > And so to make her blythe and jolly, > Finding these strings, shee'ld have a fitt > Of mirth; nay, pusse, if that were it, > Thus I revenge mee, that as thou > Hast played on them, I've plaid on you; > And as thy touch was nothing fine, > Soe I've but scratch'd these notes of mine. > > > Leonard > >> On Jan 29, 2018, at 4:22 AM, David Morales <dmorale...@cuerdaspulsadas.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> Let me please suggest our tablatures search engine >> ([1]http://cuerdaspulsadas.es/blog/buscador-de-tablaturas/) >> At this moment, only Sarge Gerbode's collection is indexed but you can >> find lots of great tabs there. >> And... here you have our "Cats&Lutes" initiative, where cats actually >> play lutes :) >> [2]http://cuerdaspulsadas.es/blog/catslutes-an-interview-with-the-illus >> trator-nathan-nun/ >> Regards. >> >> 2018-01-29 5:29 GMT+01:00 Ron Andrico <[3]praelu...@hotmail.com>: >> >> Cats are enthusiastic advocates for synthetic strings, and they >> are >> likewise very interested in free tabbies. >> ____________________________________________________________ >> ______ >> > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
