[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Falckenhagen Concerti op3

2009-02-14 Thread Andreas Schlegel
Dear Jurek It's op. IV who is completely available in the facsimile edition (collected works of Falckenhagen) edited by Joachim Domning (Trekel). The op. III is stil incomplete as far I know. Andreas Am 14.02.2009 um 03:46 schrieb Jerzy Zak: Dear All, I thought the Falckenhagen Sei

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Falckenhagen Concerti op3

2009-02-14 Thread Jerzy Zak
Dear Jean-François and Andreas, Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately the titles for both collections are very similar and easy to mess: Sei Concerti à liuto, traverso oboe ò violino e violoncello…, Opera terza, Nürnberg, J.U. Haffner, 1743 (incomplete) Sei Concerti a liuto,

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale

2009-02-14 Thread David van Ooijen
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:04 AM, sterling price spiffys84...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi-I have often wondered about van der Waals, like is he still building and where? Does he still take orders? Nico is still going strong, moved to Germany recently and is still taking orders. A pupil of mine just

[LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views?

2009-02-14 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Thank you Eugene, I use pen and paper copies now but, since so many collegues seem to be producing computer set parts these days, thought that using the appropriate software might not be as time consuming as I feared (I can't quite believe that it takes less time to enter a note

[LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute sizes around 1600

2009-02-14 Thread Martyn Hodgson
The sizes (and therefore pitches) of lutes around 1600 is still a matter of debate. VERY briefly: Wirth ( 2005) and Nurse (1986) looked at surviving Venetian and Paduan lutes and on this evidence proposed an average string length of around 66/67cm for a G lute which would suggest

[LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute sizes around 1600

2009-02-14 Thread Sean Smith
Clearly all this is subject to considerations of local pitch standards and national preferences... There you go. Proclaim A to be 392 (or 377) for the south eastern seaboard of the US and treat yourself to the nice new larger lute you so royally deserve. The

[LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute sizes around 1600

2009-02-14 Thread David Tayler
If you tune some of the notes to 415 and some to 370 and some to 465 you can get baroque tuning. dt At 02:33 AM 2/14/2009, you wrote: Clearly all this is subject to considerations of local pitch standards and national preferences... There you go. Proclaim A to be

[LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute sizes around 1600

2009-02-14 Thread David van Ooijen
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:44 AM, David Tayler vidan...@sbcglobal.net wrote: If you tune some of the notes to 415 and some to 370 and some to 465 you can get baroque tuning. ROTFLOL! Actually, this is what I do on my bass lute. No change of strings needed, who cares about well-balanced string

[LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute sizes around 1600

2009-02-14 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Oh dear! - I took it as read that the reference to local pitch and national preferences did not require the pedantic adjective 'historic' as in historic local pitch.. MH --- On Sat, 14/2/09, Sean Smith lutesm...@mac.com wrote: From: Sean Smith lutesm...@mac.com

[LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views?

2009-02-14 Thread alexander
If saving the time is at issue, by all means - computer way. I used pen (actually - pencil - much faster) - paper - copier for years and years. To produce a one average 12 stave page simple part with a fair number of 16ths than someone else besides self will be able to read took about 30

[LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views?

2009-02-14 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I think amongst those who use notation software with somewhat professional intent, some manner of keystroke entry is key and certainly key to efficiency. Point and click entry is too slow and too toy-like. Eugene - Original Message - From: alexander voka...@verizon.net Date: Saturday,

[LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views?

2009-02-14 Thread Omer Katzir
Thank keyboard concept of yours sounds really interesting, can you post a picture of that keyboard? Thanks! On Feb 14, 2009, at 3:30 PM, alexander wrote: If saving the time is at issue, by all means - computer way. I used pen (actually - pencil - much faster) - paper - copier for years and

[LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views?

2009-02-14 Thread alexander
I have all the most needed symbols right under the fingers, plus the usual outlay under a modifier key (left Alt), to be able to type up markups. Don't know about a picture of the keyboard, but here is my .xmodmap file ( c-d-e-f instead of z-x-c-v; r [for the rest] -g-a-b instead of a-s-d-f;,

[LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute sizes around 1600

2009-02-14 Thread demery
[somenotes a=415, others...] actually, mixed tuning is not such an odd idea - harpists sometimes tune part of the harp with accidentals the rest normal and switch octaves to change keys. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views?

2009-02-14 Thread Kenneth M Berry
To be productive with tex I needed to use an editor like kile so I don't have to use a text console constantly. With lilypond I found frescobaldi which is similar to the editors you use with tex, It really just gets you out of the console. When using kile with tex you get a

[LUTE] lilypond keyboard remapping

2009-02-14 Thread Peter Nightingale
Alexander, Nice! Presumably somewhere you execute something like xmodmap $HOME/.xmodmap to remap your keyboard, but how do you go back to the default? Or can you live with this remapping at all times? I should be able to answer that question for myself by looking at the details of your

[LUTE] Taras Kompanichenko concert in Toronto

2009-02-14 Thread Roman Turovsky
For those who live in or near Toronto - Taras Kompanichenko - kobza and starosvitska bandura and Yuri Fedynsky - starosvitska bandura The program includes examples of authentic kobzar repertoire and lute music from Ukraine played on the kobza and early bandura. Saturday 14th February 2009 - 7

[LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views? (text editors)

2009-02-14 Thread Peter Nightingale
My advice is to pick xemacs as your text editor. You will never have to learn another in your life: either it is cut short climbing the learning curve, or you reach the Elysian Fields. Peter. On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Kenneth M Berry wrote: To be productive with tex I needed to use an editor

[LUTE] Re: lilypond keyboard remapping

2009-02-14 Thread alexander
I have all the needed xmodmaps (xmodmap-ly, xmodmap-fr, xmodmap-ru etc) in HOME, and the default one is xmodmap-x (it has a few keys differently mapped from the usual). They are linked to keys combinations (in my case i use Fluxbox and just have this lines in the keys: F16 :ExecCommand xmodmap

[LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute sizes around 1600

2009-02-14 Thread Sean Smith
History marches ever onward, Martyn. While I don't expect her to start a movement to change local standard pitch I see no reason not set G or A at whatever necessary to ensure the success of her concert. Loosening the tyranny of a standard pitch is well within our rights of historical

[LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views?

2009-02-14 Thread Guy Smith
For ensemble playing, computer generated staff notation is a major time saver (Finale, in my case). It's not just the time it takes to enter the notes. I've obtained a number of pieces from Werner Icking for our loud band, and discovered that they didn't quite fit on one or more instruments.

[LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute sizes around 1600

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Browne
Sean Smith wrote: History marches ever onward, Martyn. While I don't expect her to start a movement to change local standard pitch I see no reason not set G or A at whatever necessary to ensure the success of her concert. Loosening the tyranny of a standard pitch is well within our rights

[LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute sizes around 1600

2009-02-14 Thread William Brohinsky
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Clearly all this is subject to considerations of local pitch standards and national preferences... Oddly, no one seems to have settled on the most obvious solution: Caroline merely needs

[LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute sizes around 1600

2009-02-14 Thread William Brohinsky
*sigh*. Correction: At A=494, a G lute (at previous A=440) is now in F. On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:48 PM, William Brohinsky tiorbin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Clearly all this is subject to considerations of local

[LUTE-BUILDER] hide glue.

2009-02-14 Thread Brod Mac
what gram strength of hide glue should i use, for a bridge, or neck mount, thanks. i read some where 251? __ Windows Live Messenger. [1]Multitasking at its finest. -- References 1.

[LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs??

2009-02-14 Thread David Tayler
Dowland transposed all the time--except he put the music into a MORE difficult key. dt At 02:00 PM 2/14/2009, you wrote: Hi all, I think Dowland himself would not have objected to transposing a lute song to suit the tessitura of a particular singer. Most of his songs can quite comfortably be