Pratum musicum 1600

2004-03-25 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear friends, many thanks for all those, who answered to my request concerning Adriansen's Pratum. It is wonderful that we have such a great resource like our LUTENET. Best wishes: Peter Kiraly- Peter Király Glockenstr. 34 D-67655 Kaiserslautern T/Fax. (00)49 631 69866

Re: early country music

2004-03-25 Thread bill
jon - buy you a drink? On Giovedì, mar 25, 2004, at 07:07 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote: Roman, Europe is not Nashville, national musics were/are extremely distinct in character and the melodies they produce are far from unsophisticated, spiced with local intervals, often in unusual

Re: early country music

2004-03-25 Thread bill
mediaeval Europe.. let's leave the media out of this

New piece of the month

2004-03-25 Thread Martin Shepherd
Dear All, The latest splendid fantasia from the Hirsch lute book is now at www.luteshop.fsnet.co.uk where the front page now also has a picture (taken by Francis with his new digital camera) of me cutting some tramlines. I hope you enjoy it - all comments welcome. Best wishes, Martin

RE: early country music

2004-03-25 Thread Ron Fletcher
mediaeval Europe.. let's leave the media out of this And see what's left! Ron (UK)

Re: early country music

2004-03-25 Thread Arto Wikla
Hi Jon and all, on Thursday 25 March 2004 08:07, Jon Murphy wrote: [...] In fact almost all American folk is of European origin, Almost all, but not all. The native Indian melodies have an oriental scale structure, they aren't the drum and chant of the Western movies. And the music of

Re: New piece of the month

2004-03-25 Thread Tony Chalkley
the front page now also has a picture (taken by Francis with his new digital camera) of me cutting some tramlines. I hope you enjoy it - all comments welcome. I'd have known you anywhere! Tony

New piece - correction

2004-03-25 Thread Martin Shepherd
Dear All, Thanks to Ron Andrico for pointing out a missing rhythm sign (bar 96, event 1, should be a two-tailer). I've fixed the copy on my site. Best wishes, Martin

RE: early country music

2004-03-25 Thread Garry Bryan
-Original Message- From: Arto Wikla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:23 AM To: Jon Murphy Cc: lute society Subject: Re: early country music Hi Jon and all, on Thursday 25 March 2004 08:07, Jon Murphy wrote: [...] In fact almost all American folk is of

Re: early country music

2004-03-25 Thread Roman Turovsky
Perhaps I missed something on this thread, and I hesitate to make a strong statement as I normally assume that people speak as gentlemen. But I find the above comment offensive. Jon, you remind me of an old proverb about Vikings. In the days of yore when a Norseman would misunderstand something

torbanistica

2004-03-25 Thread Roman Turovsky
I have just put up a photo of the Royal College of Music Torban (seems to be identical with the Razumovsky Torban in Vienna), for those interested. http://polyhymnion.org/torban Chapter IIIb RT

Re: Hapsburg Double-Eagles

2004-03-25 Thread Daniel F Heiman
David: May I suggest that you have a look at the database of historical lutes, the Lautenweltadressbuch, on the LSA website: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/associated/index.html#Lautenweltadressbu ch Roses with one or more eagles incorporated into the design were uncommon enough that they

divisions and hexachords ?

2004-03-25 Thread Peter Nightingale
Dear List, I'm trying to add divisions to La Rossignol and I appended the fruits of my labor. (Pls widen your window if the modified version wraps around.) I'm having problems with measure 3: for the 4th and 6th note I can (or maybe not ?) choose an e of an e-flat, which gives me four

Re: early country music

2004-03-25 Thread Roman Turovsky
Buy him one of Grappa di Moscato Bocchino. Knob Creek is nice too, but to broaden the horizons, sai RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://turovsky.org http://polyhymnion.org jon - buy you a drink? On Giovedi' 25, 2004, at 07:07 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote:

Re: new lute-limerick

2004-03-25 Thread Daniel Shoskes
To the lute list I ventured to treck, To find pearls amongst all the dreck, But spammin by Roman, On updates to 'hmnion, Deluge me with factitious Sautscheck! (and I've heard every Urologist joke in the book 50 times over, so don't bother trying to rhyme Shoskes and prostate!) On Thursday,

RE: new lute-limerick

2004-03-25 Thread Charles Browne
I am not sure that Romans could tell the difference either! At the head of our valley in Cumbria is the remains of a roman fort and when the weather closes in and the mist lies thick around you cant even distinguish the Herdwicks from the rocks! Charles -Original Message- From: Roman

Re: single strung Dm tuning lute gigue

2004-03-25 Thread Alain Veylit
For the amateurs of new music for Baroque lute, I put together a gigue grave in the french style (with a tinge of greater Los Angeles accent, the end is very rap-sodick and you can probably skip it altogether...). I think it's ok and fun to play (there is a nice 2 octave descent in the third

Re: new lute-limerick

2004-03-25 Thread Roman Turovsky
I am not sure that Romans could tell the difference either! At the head of our valley in Cumbria is the remains of a roman fort and when the weather closes in and the mist lies thick around you cant even distinguish the Herdwicks from the rocks! Charles As long as you can distinguish

Re: new lute-limerick

2004-03-25 Thread Roman Turovsky
To the lute list I ventured to treck, To find pearls amongst all the dreck, But spammin by Roman, On updates to 'hmnion, Deluge me with factitious Sautscheck! (and I've heard every Urologist joke in the book 50 times over, so don't bother trying to rhyme Shoskes and prostate!) Dr.

Re: new lute-limerick

2004-03-25 Thread Arne Keller
At 16:38 25-03-2004 -0500, Roman Turovsky wrote: I am not sure that Romans could tell the difference either! At the head of our valley in Cumbria is the remains of a roman fort and when the weather closes in and the mist lies thick around you cant even distinguish the Herdwicks from the rocks!

Re: new lute-limerick

2004-03-25 Thread Roman Turovsky
At 16:38 25-03-2004 -0500, Roman Turovsky wrote: I am not sure that Romans could tell the difference either! At the head of our valley in Cumbria is the remains of a roman fort and when the weather closes in and the mist lies thick around you cant even distinguish the Herdwicks from the

Lute limericks

2004-03-25 Thread RichardTomBeck
A few further contributions There was a guitarist from Bute who thought he'd start playing the lute, but his fingers and rings got caught in the strings, so instead he got pissed as a newt. A lute player thought he would try to play a tune by Dufay, but, tragic to say, =20 played Josquin des

Re: early country music

2004-03-25 Thread Jon Murphy
Sorry Arto, I would not underestimate the African influence on American music... A slip of the mind, the African should be in the category of imported, like the European. My excuse is that I was fixated on the Appalachian back porch. The meld can be magnificent (and also can be awful g). Best,

Re: early country music

2004-03-25 Thread Jon Murphy
Oh my Garry, What a wonderful link! I've only scanned it, but it is added to my IE favorites so I can explore it at leisure. The resident musicologist goes back into an area I know a bit, but not as he does. I was searching for a term for the music I was referring to, and carefully avoided using

Re: new lute-limerick

2004-03-25 Thread Jon Murphy
A New-Jersean plucker called Murph couldn't tell a Highland Pict from a Smurf, But he harped, our Jon, Off our topics, but on Navy, Country, but mainly 'bout Murph. RT The second line is an unnecessary stretch, drop the Highland - it is close to redundant anyway. This elderly gent in N.J

Re: lute limericks

2004-03-25 Thread Jon Murphy
John Dowland went to compose a dark song 'bout Final Repose. He could do no wrong, and he got his song and a reputation of being morose. Excellent, it parses with a small effort. Thomas Morley set out to compose a dark song 'bout Final Repose. But any type of la Morte just wasn't his

Re: Tiorbino composers?

2004-03-25 Thread Howard Posner
Alain's response prompts me to clarify my question. I'm not looking for music that can be played on a tiorbino (I suppose any Italian or French theorbo piece could be played on a tiorbino). I'm asking whether any composer other than Castaldi specifically designated music for tiorbino. I think