[LUTE] Re: Contemporary Music and the Lute

2007-04-13 Thread Ed Durbrow
On Apr 12, 2007, at 12:40 AM, Narada wrote: > Mind you if someone could up with a > 'light' version of 'Stairway to Heaven' they could be on a winner. I think someone already has. Anyway, if you have 7 courses, just tune the 7th a fourth below the 6th and play all the guitar music you like. (I

[LUTE] Re: An interesting article in the Washington post.

2007-04-13 Thread Ed Durbrow
Just because someone is a great musician does not make them a great busker. No busker in their right mind would ever busk at morning rush hour. The first task of a busker is to choose the pitch. Busking is about getting an edge (enough people stopped so that other people will want to stop and

[LUTE] Re: Willie Loman of the 17th century?

2007-04-13 Thread Guy Smith
Or was he perhaps referring to a beer barrel? Speaking as someone who recently finished a book, a barrel of beer looks pretty inviting by the time you've made the final handoff to the publisher. Guy -Original Message- From: Ron Fletcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2

[LUTE] [Re: Willie Loman of the 17th century? and Claire Antonini]

2007-04-13 Thread Manolo Laguillo
Dear Arthur, I would say, 'Acker' is the field where he works, in the literal sense of ploughin, like a farmer, going back and forth on it, but with the pen instead of the plough. 'Wacker', in the sense of 'tuechtig', 'kraeftig'. Is it 'tough' in english ('tuechtig' and 'tough' are not that fa

[LUTE] Re: Willie Loman of the 17th century?

2007-04-13 Thread
Dear Arthur, he is not so much bragging about his work (although "wacker schreiben" means "to write bravely") but identifying himself as the writer of a piece, a section of pieces or even of the whole book if his words are to be found at the end of it. The comparision of one's work with what the p

[LUTE] Re: help finding theory book's

2007-04-13 Thread Taco Walstra
On Friday 13 April 2007 07:15, Omer katzir wrote: > i mean theory from the medieval and earlier to the end of the > romantic period > > i have enough books for modern and jazz music, but im looking for the > "good old stuff" > books in english or in hebrew. > > thank you all! > Donington - the int