[LUTE] Re: lute music and playing technique in italy 18th century

2010-05-13 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
> -Original Message- > From: Stuart Walsh [mailto:s.wa...@ntlworld.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 6:02 PM > To: Eugene C. Braig IV > Cc: 'Nancy Carlin'; 'Lute List' > Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: lute music and playing technique in italy 18th > century > > Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > >

[LUTE] Re: lute music and playing technique in italy 18th century

2010-05-13 Thread Stuart Walsh
Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: It was made by the semi-infamous Luciano Faria. Feel free to contact me directly if you'd like details of the instrument itself. I play the dedicated repertoire for mandolino on it: Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Arrigoni, the few works from the Dalla Casa book, etc. My favorite

[LUTE] Re: lute music and playing technique in italy 18th century

2010-05-13 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
PS: My instrument is patterned after the 1736 Smorsone in Berlin. Best, Eugene > -Original Message- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of Eugene C. Braig IV > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 2:06 PM > To: 'Nancy Carlin'; 'Lute List' > Subject: [

[LUTE] Re: lute music and playing technique in italy 18th century

2010-05-13 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
It was made by the semi-infamous Luciano Faria. Feel free to contact me directly if you'd like details of the instrument itself. I play the dedicated repertoire for mandolino on it: Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Arrigoni, the few works from the Dalla Casa book, etc. My favorite work for the instrument is

[LUTE] Re: lute music and playing technique in italy 18th century

2010-05-13 Thread Nancy Carlin
That looks like a nice mandolin in the picture. Who made it and what kind of music do you play on it? Nancy At 07:24 AM 5/13/2010, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: Almost nothing is documented on playing technique of 4th-tuned mandolin/o other than iconography, and techniques s

[LUTE] Re: lute music and playing technique in italy 18th century

2010-05-13 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
Almost nothing is documented on playing technique of 4th-tuned mandolin/o other than iconography, and techniques so portrayed can pretty diverse looking. One of the clearest and most performance-ready painting from the mid 1700s is Longhi's "Little concert." It shows a pair of ladies playing 5-c

[LUTE] lute music and playing technique in italy 18th century

2010-05-13 Thread Susanne Herre
Dear Lute Wisdom, It would be great if you could help me. I'm doing some research on the baroque mandolin. I would like to know which italian baroque music for lute instruments do we have from the first half of the 18th century? Which composers are represented?