[LUTE] Re: Reymann

2019-05-01 Thread Susan Price
I see that OMI has a nice facsimile of Reymann for $111.00. Should I purchase? Susan Original message From: Dan Winheld Date: 5/1/19 7:27 PM (GMT-07:00) To: magnus andersson , Tristan von Neumann , lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: Reymann

[LUTE] Re: Reymann

2019-05-01 Thread Dan Winheld
Congratulations Tristan and Magnus- you have gotten me interested in getting Reymann's "Noctes"; unfortunately my eyesight has degraded to the point where I can no longer read facsimiles. Are there any modern typeset editions? (Any tab system or pitch notation- just has to be legible to

[LUTE] Re: Leonardo da Vinci and the lute

2019-05-01 Thread Alain Veylit
I thinkĀ  personally Leonardo played a lira da bracchio, - an instrument that perhaps could have been not very different from a vihuela - if we consider its opposite the lira d'arco, i.e. a bowed instrument. If I recall correctly - 30 years after reading Vasari - Vasari praised Leonardo on his

[LUTE] Re: Leonardo da Vinci and the lute

2019-05-01 Thread Andreas Schlegel
Dear Franco, Ron and others Thanks a lot for all your contribution. It seems that I was right in my opinion that Leonardo was probably a skilled musician, but there is no evidence for him as a lute player. So in the interview Prof. Roeck (or the newspaper) confused lute and lyre. All the best