He said it in class. He never finished the sentence, and I'm sure
never planned to, knowing from long experience where the laughs would
come.
On Jan 4, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Stuart LeBlanc wrote:
> Could I trouble you to provide the remainder of the quote
> (beyond the ellipsis)? Or a citation.
Howard, you rock. Could I trouble you to provide the remainder of the quote
(beyond the ellipsis)? Or a citation.
-Original Message-
From: howard posner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 1:10 PM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Net
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Finery & Filth...
And a fine tradition it is!
Great emoticon, BTW.
C.
>>> "Ray Brohinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/4/2008 3:08 pm >>>
Actually, more than a few latter-day Puritan descendents still keep up
the tradition. 8^)
On Jan 4, 2008 3:01 PM, Christopher Stetson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, and Puritan mi
On 1/4/2008, "Daniel Winheld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >" ...if the ministers and priests were preaching against something,
> >you can be pretty sure a lot of people were doing it."
>
> AHA! Mean tempered frets! Tastini! Where does the degeneracy and
> perversion end?
That was good one! I en
Yes, and Puritan ministers apparently often married couples, my ancestors
likely among them, who were already pregnant (please forgive my logically
indefensible, but modernly popular and grammatically expedient shortcut!) or
even with children. However, it must be noted that the theory was, to
- You can be pretty sure a lot of people were doing it.
Best to all,
C.
I always thought secks was what the posh people had their coal in...
Ron (UK)
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The Puritans approved, after all, of the practice of "bundling" (at least,
they did in colonial Massachusetts, I'm not sure about elsewhere).
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From: Christopher Stetson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
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On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Christopher Stetson wrote:
> Hey, let's not perpetuate the Victorian myth that the Puritans
> didn't like sex,
Robert Adams, my favorite professor at UCLA (he was editor of the
17th century portion of the Norton Anthology of English Literature)
noted that Purita
Hi, all,
Hey, let's not perpetuate the Victorian myth that the Puritans didn't like sex,
and even probably laugh at the occasional bawdy joke. There wouldn't be nearly
so many of us Puritan descendants if that were the case! Blasphemy, (which is
now, of course, ok!) no, but bawdiness (now not
You'll also find at least a couple of Purcell pieces in the Baltimore
Consort's CD of bawdy/drinking songs.
-Original Message-
From: howard posner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 8:42 AM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Net
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Finery & Filth...
On Jan 4
On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:37 AM, Ron Fletcher wrote:
> He has recently discovered a book of 'bawdy drinking-songs' written
> by Henry
> Purcell, a composer we would not readily associate with this type
> of music.
Of course we would. Purcell is known for his bawdy catches, they've
been perform
That's the nature of the text attached to this melody, believe it or not.
The last stanza mentiones "the unbaptized infants swaying among the weeds in
eddies".
This was the sociologically significant result of wenching for sport,
practiced by the officer corps in the Imperial Russian Caval
He's going to perform his one man show _Finery and Filth_ at the next
Lute Society (UK) meeting on the 19th. Apparently it _contains lyrics
not suitable for those of a Puritan disposition_. Sounds like my kind
of thing.
Andrew
On 4 Jan 2008, at 13:37, Ron Fletcher wrote:
I was watching l
Contrepartie. French word meaning compensation or exchange.
N
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From: Andrew Gibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 January 2008 13:48
To: Roman Turovsky
Cc: Lutelist
Subject: [LUTE] Re: [delian] Re: as dark as it gets
Lovely - can tell us more about the song?
Also
Lovely - can tell us more about the song?
Also - what is the defintion of a contrepartie?
Andrew
On 4 Jan 2008, at 13:32, Roman Turovsky wrote:
Lest we fall into emotional/intellectual complacency,
A 6-course intabulation of a song of
"Seduction>Abandonment>Infanticide"-
http://torban.org/
I was watching local TV-news last night when there was a feature on an
Elizabethan period performer from Lincolnshire.
He has recently discovered a book of 'bawdy drinking-songs' written by Henry
Purcell, a composer we would not readily associate with this type of music.
Dante Ferrara is an ea
Lest we fall into emotional/intellectual complacency,
A 6-course intabulation of a song of "Seduction>Abandonment>Infanticide"-
http://torban.org/ruthenicae/images/215.pdf
http://torban.org/audio/215.mp3
With a contrapartie by a Dutch friend-
http://torban.org/audio/215H.mp3
Enjoy
RT
To
Hi Roman, Ed and other interested parties,
In discussing the possibility of reversal of the painting of the lutenist
on
http://www.aquilacorde.com/lutes.htm
I recently suggested the painting is NOT a mirror image on the basis of
the
subject's hair style.
Roman replied...
"Is hair parting ge
It has to be OLD right?
Well, here's old for you;
12th century:
http://tinyurl.com/yvkknu
You want even older? Right,
6th century:
http://tinyurl.com/258uc4
http://tinyurl.com/2h4zxk
http://tinyurl.com/ynrgbf
Not satisfied?
OK. really really OLD!
http://tinyurl.com/28kn9v
mindboggl
Hi Roman, Ed and other interested parties,
In discussing the possibility of reversal of the painting of the lutenist on
http://www.aquilacorde.com/lutes.htm
I recently suggested the painting is NOT a mirror image on the basis of the
subject's hair style.
Roman replied...
"Is hair parting genetic
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