Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-04 Thread Mathias Rösel
Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: So it's a mistake to try to write profound music for the lute? Only if it is a lute in in a or higher. Are we assuming A=440 for these purposes? If so, is it OK to write profound music for lute in A if we're at A=392? Let me put it this

Fw: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-04 Thread Roman Turovsky
Let me put it this way: there should be a set minimum string length, something like 59-60 cm, with severe legal penalties otherwise. Have we told the violinists? We are NOT violinists, thankfully. RT To get on or off this list see list information at

Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-04 Thread Roman Turovsky
So it's a mistake to try to write profound music for the lute? Only if it is a lute in in a or higher. Are we assuming A=440 for these purposes? If so, is it OK to write profound music for lute in A if we're at A=392? Let me put it this way: there should be a set minimum

Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-04 Thread Sal Salvaggio
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Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-04 Thread Mathias Rösel
Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: So it's a mistake to try to write profound music for the lute? Only if it is a lute in in a or higher. Are we assuming A=440 for these purposes? If so, is it OK to write profound music for lute in A if we're at A=392? Let me put it this way: there

Lute Player Needed in Philadelphia Area!!!

2005-08-04 Thread bill kilpatrick
the following was posted to the yahoo fretted friends list: Hello, My name is Jeff McNeill. I am an artist who specializes in combining Hip-Hop with Classical Music by recording and performing with classically trained musicians. Most notably, in 2002 I became the first Hip-Hop artist to perform

Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-04 Thread Marcus Merrin
Excellently said! I once participated in a masterclass with Robert Spencer. My lute had just travelled 100 Km in Nova Scotian winter conditions and I had just changed to my first set of gut strings. Needless to say tuning was a misery, and I suffered the embarassment of wasting considerable

Re: Lute Player Needed in Philadelphia Area!!!

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel F Heiman
Note that in the Internet Lute Society version of the posting, it specifies Bach's Lute Suite #1-Bourree. No BWV number is supplied! On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:38:47 +0100 (BST) bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the following was posted to the yahoo fretted friends list: Hello, My

Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-04 Thread Howard Posner
Mathias Rösel wrote: would encouraging non-adults (children) to play descant lutes _in public_ qualify as an offence of the under-59-cm act? Would lack of other players than my seven-year-old daughter save me from getting filed? Howard? To be fair, Roman's prohibition (far less sweeping than

Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-04 Thread Roman Turovsky
would encouraging non-adults (children) to play descant lutes _in public_ qualify as an offence of the under-59-cm act? Would lack of other players than my seven-year-old daughter save me from getting filed? Howard? To be fair, Roman's prohibition (far less sweeping than is usual with

RE: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-04 Thread Stuart LeBlanc
The passage from Segovia's autobiography which I vaguely remember goes something like: You play the guitar to woo your lover. When you are betrayed by your lover, you play the cello to tell your sorrows to your friend. When you are betrayed by your friend, you play the organ to tell your

Re: Lute Player Needed in Philadelphia Area!!!

2005-08-04 Thread Jon Murphy
If anyone among you knows Philadelphia it is the home of many tracks. The process of riding a train from NYC to Washington involves getting through about twenty tracks, and sub tracks, in Philadelphia. Thirtieth St. Station, Broad Street, and a number of others. And they all wind and mix at low

Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-04 Thread Jon Murphy
Stuart, The passage from Segovia's autobiography which I vaguely remember goes something like: You play the guitar to woo your lover. When you are betrayed by your lover, you play the cello to tell your sorrows to your friend. When you are betrayed by your friend, you play the organ to

Re: Fw: Byrd

2005-08-04 Thread Antonio Corona
An unlikely combination, unless you wish them to kill each other... --- Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VILLA, ZAPATA, CARRANZA HUERTA. RT The vihuela quartet is forming. does anyone have a good idea for a name for a vihuela quartet? Please, do not call it the