[LUTE] Re: Spruce for lute vs guitar.

2015-01-21 Thread timothy swain
I find it hard to believe many of the discussion points that come up; Robert Lundberg (lute builder, who died of cancer in 2001--he was a good friend-- deserved person of great respect about lute building) talked a lot about the very same subjects that people still discuss (as if they're unaware,

[LUTE] Re: Spruce for lute vs guitar.

2015-01-21 Thread Mayes, Joseph
I am certain that discussion concerning tone woods, nail-use, phrasing, voice-leading, and the current famous-player-cult of adoration took place in 1400 and has continued to take place with only the voices changing right down through history. I don't think this is a bad thing in any respect.

[LUTE] Re: Spruce for lute vs guitar.

2015-01-21 Thread Braig, Eugene
Yes. This is the nature of any relatively open listserv or electronic forum with some longevity. The personal experience and knowledge base of individuals simply vary; not everybody knows what you may take for granted or has enjoyed your own diversity of experience. As new folk cycle

[LUTE] Wolf Hall

2015-01-21 Thread WALSH STUART
(first episode of much-hyped TV series in UK) I was expecting an immediate response... So anyway, here goes: music begins with Ah Robin (not sung - and probably played on a lute?)...melds into Glassy instrumental stuff. A tremolando mandoline churns out all the plucked expressive work,

[LUTE] Re: Spruce for lute vs guitar.

2015-01-21 Thread Braig, Eugene
Well said, Ron. Eugene -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Andrico Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:31 PM To: timothy swain; Braig, Eugene Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: Spruce for lute vs guitar.

[LUTE] Re: Spruce for lute vs guitar.

2015-01-21 Thread Ron Andrico
An interesting aspect of this on-line forum is that one can never presume a baseline standard of knowledge from which we all build in order to form a broad and deep understanding of our shared art. It seems that we routinely receive questions and comments posed by people from all

[LUTE] Cambridge goes on-line.

2015-01-21 Thread Robert Clair
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/crown-jewels-of-english-lute-music-go-online?utm_medium=emailutm_source=alumnewsletter http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/crown-jewels-of-english-lute-music-go-online?utm_medium=emailutm_source=alumnewsletter Apologies if someone already posted this. …Bob

[LUTE] Re: Wolf Hall

2015-01-21 Thread Helen Atkinson
I can vouch for aA lute playing Ah Robin - it's none other than Jacob Heringman, who also appears brieflyA with theA ensemble in Boleyn'sA chamber. On Wednesday, 21 January 2015, WALSH STUART [1]s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: (first episode of much-hyped TV series in UK) I

[LUTE] Re: Wolf Hall

2015-01-21 Thread Chris Barker
There was no link. Chris -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of WALSH STUART Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:39 PM To: lutelist Net Subject: [LUTE] Wolf Hall (first episode of much-hyped TV series in UK) I was expecting

[LUTE] Re: Cambridge goes on-line.

2015-01-21 Thread Christopher Stetson
Great!A Thanks, Robert. Chris. On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Robert Clair [1]rcl...@elroberto.com wrote: [2]http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/crown-jewels-of-english-lute-m usic-go-online?utm_medium=emailutm_source=alumnewsletter

[LUTE] Re: Cambridge goes on-line.

2015-01-21 Thread Stephen Fryer
On 21/01/2015 4:42 PM, Robert Clair wrote: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/crown-jewels-of-english-lute-music-go-online?utm_medium=emailutm_source=alumnewsletter http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/crown-jewels-of-english-lute-music-go-online?utm_medium=emailutm_source=alumnewsletter

[LUTE] Re: Cambridge goes on-line.

2015-01-21 Thread stephen arndt
Try this: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/music . As far as I can tell, though, for any given manuscript you have to download one page at a time. After an intense 120 seconds of looking, I didn't find a way to download an entire manuscript. Perhaps someone else can enlighten us.

[LUTE] Re: 16th century tuning and stringing

2015-01-21 Thread Martin Shepherd
The 6th course doesn't get much use in this piece! But I can sometimes (just) detect the upper octave, and the lower octave is in the usual place, I think, and audible. The octaves can be heard clearly on courses 4 and 5, especially 5 where she has a tendency to use a rest stroke. The lower

[LUTE] Newsletter from TREE EDITION

2015-01-21 Thread TREE EDITION
TREE EDITIONNEW February 2015 __ GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER: LIBRO PRIMO D INTAVOLTURA DI LAUTO, Roma 1611, facsimile 59 pieces for Ren. lute/Italian tablature/Renaissance tuning Euro 20.- GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER: