For some of the early continuo treatises (*not* lute specific) with
parallel translations into several modern European languages, see here:
http://www.bassus-generalis.org/
Daniel Heiman
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:01:41 +0200 LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
but an excellent book on the
I presume you're both aware of Molitor's report in the early 1800s that he met
a Mandora player (precursor of the German 'lute guitar'?) who told him he had
changed to single strings like the contemporary guitar since it was
easier
Martyh Hodgson
Kenneth Sparr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello all,
me again. thomas schall has a very nice collection of waissels
tabulatura from 1573 on his homepage http:// http://cms.tslaute.de/
cms.tslaute.de/ . the first piece is a praeambulum, very nice music.
beate dittmann played it on her cd Wol kumbt der May .
hello all,
me again. thomas schall has a very nice collection of waissels
tabulatura from 1573 on his homepage http:// http://cms.tslaute.de/
cms.tslaute.de/ . the first piece is a praeambulum, very nice music.
beate dittmann played it on her cd Wol kumbt der May . unless I am
very much mistaken
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005, Nancy Carlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Dana,
I'm playing a lot of orpharion these days [...]
I had a student model copy of the rose myself some years ago, yes soft
wire strings have their own feel and touch needs; I beleive their are
contemporary warnings to that effect
Dear Kenneth,
I do look from time to time into the ZVAB but weren't yet lucky in searching
for items like this ...
My being unsure about Scholander's influence on the lute song movement in
Germany has to do with seeing the latter as having been strongly linked with
the musical youth movement
Dear Martyn,
it may be indeed that there is a direct link between the Mandora and the early
six-string lute guitar but to me it seems difficult to find hard evidence. Lute
instruments were made into lute guitars quite some time before 1828 if we may
believe Jacob August Otto who testifies to
BTW: The CD by Beate Dittmann is IMHO still the best of that repertoire.
You cann obtain copies from the LSA (to which I have send copies for the
last lute fest) or on my homepage you can order the disk directly from
Beate and listen to a sample piece.
http://cms.tslaute.de
The orders can be
