[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: D# Minor Suite

2011-10-30 Thread arebh
Hi all! I may be misremembering but I'm fairly sure I recollect a talk at the UK Lute Society many years ago given by a (then) young Scandinavian about some Baroque lute music in a very unusual key. As I recall he was adamant that the key was not Eb but D#. Perhaps he was the person who

[LUTE] diatessaron/diapente

2011-10-30 Thread Jerzy Zak
Dear friends, In the Supplement to LUTE NEWS 99 there is a second part of Bach Suite bwv1006a intabulated by Wilfred Foxe. It is presented here in a key of D major, quite unusually. In the Critical Commentary Wilfred Foxe explains: The tonality of the original suite is E major, and this has

[LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente

2011-10-30 Thread Rob MacKillop
I was going to ask the same thing! But never mind Greek. What does 'diatessaron above the diapente' mean in English? Rob On 30 October 2011 15:26, Jerzy Zak [1]jurek...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, In the Supplement to LUTE NEWS 99 there is a second part of Bach

[LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente

2011-10-30 Thread Stephen Fryer
On 30/10/2011 10:11 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote: I was going to ask the same thing! But never mind Greek. What does 'diatessaron above the diapente' mean in English? Literally a fourth above a fifth. It doesn't make much sense to me either - wouldn't that be an octave? stephen

[LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente

2011-10-30 Thread Monica Hall
As I have an e-mail address for Wilfred and was at a meeting with him yesterday I have forwarded this message to him and asked him if he can explain a bit more. I am curious too because I used to play this suite on the violin. (sounds much better like that too). I will let you all know if

[LUTE] Ballo Ruteno XVIII

2011-10-30 Thread Roman Turovsky
http://torban.org/balli/images/balloR18.mp3 http://torban.org/balli/images/balloR18.pdf RT http://torban.org/balli/images/ballo351.mp3 http://torban.org/balli/images/ballo351.pdf RT http://torban.org/balli/images/ballo350.mp3 http://torban.org/balli/images/ballo350.pdf Enjoy. AmitiƩs, RT