[LUTE] Re: lute and uke! Gabriel Pierné

2015-12-05 Thread Rockford Mjos
Another charming performance and piece! — Rocky On Dec 5, 2015, at 4:26 AM, WALSH STUART wrote: > Chanson d'autrefois, > > fromm Album pour mes petits amis > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp2raYF-J24 > > > > Stuart > > --- > This email has been checked for

[LUTE] Re: website on cistre updated

2015-10-21 Thread Rockford Mjos
Thank you for letting us know about your cistre site, Stuart. I _love_ your performance of the Pollet Menuet that you posted! Not really being familiar with the instrument, I was surprised by the size of the instrument — very different from my little EMS cittern kit. Even more a

[LUTE] Re: Susato

2015-07-16 Thread Rockford Mjos
A transcription of the third book is available here under Tielman Susato - Allerhande Danserye (1551) http://lusthof-der-muziek.blogspot.com/2015/03/tielman-susato-allerhande-danserye-1551.html https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6J1H4gAmvwLMVZoWkdweXVXeTg/view?pli=1 — R On Jul 16, 2015, at

[LUTE] Re: Saturday morning quotes - musicality

2015-03-14 Thread Rockford Mjos
I also raise my glass to Rob — to his musicianship and countless contributions! (Though I’m not sure what a reeking lum might be.) — Rocky On Mar 14, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Ron Andrico praelu...@hotmail.com wrote: We have posted our Saturday morning quote, this week from the Burwell

[LUTE] Re: Two alfabeto prints (Pesaro Abbatessa) New UR Research Publications for dates: 01/21/2015 - 01/22/2015

2015-03-03 Thread Rockford Mjos
Thank you, Arthur! — Rocky On Mar 3, 2015, at 9:28 AM, AJN arthurjn...@verizon.net wrote: Forgot to send this. --Original Message-- From: [1]nore...@ur.rochester.edu Date: Jan 22, 2015 1:04:27 AM Subject: New UR Research Publications for dates: 01/21/2015 -

[LUTE] Re: Technique for friction at the nut.

2014-11-18 Thread Rockford Mjos
Another solution for sticking strings at the nut was offered in the Belgian Lute Society newsletter in 2007. http://lute-academy.be/CMSimple/downloads/Geluit39.pdf The instructions start on page 18. If you don’t read Dutch or French, the photos are pretty clear: 1. Mark the string at the point

[LUTE] Re: Mompou - piano piece as lute duo

2014-08-28 Thread Rockford Mjos
Lovely! — R On Aug 28, 2014, at 5:39 AM, WALSH STUART s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: Frederic Mompou: Musical Callada 1. Played a bit faster than on a piano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g28YkWTcj3I Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast!

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: duos with alto recorder

2014-06-22 Thread Rockford Mjos
I think these would be very useful and it shouldn’t be at all hard to locate the missing melody parts. The Corelli is a little problematic for recorder in the original key (I have an alto recorder version transposed to Gm in my files), but the Sarabanda and Giga would only require a few notes

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: duos with alto recorder

2014-06-21 Thread Rockford Mjos
Ken, Are you needing to find things with baroque lute tabs? Or is reading figured bass possible? (I’m guessing you are looking for things in tab.) — Rocky On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Ken Brodkey kbrod...@pacbell.net wrote: Hi Everyone, A friend's friend will be visiting next month and

[LUTE] Re: Birds

2014-06-18 Thread Rockford Mjos
Before we fly away from Eloy’s thread I’ll add a related text. I found this text very striking when I heard it on the recording “The Leaves be Greene”. It was read by Peter Bale and preceded the final music on the LP — “A Dump” by John Johnson. (The Leaves be Greene, The Consort of Musicke -

[LUTE] Re: Birds

2014-06-17 Thread Rockford Mjos
F-Res F844 — baroque guitar p. 18 Un beau plumet p. 77 Dans nos bois p. 69 Les tourterelles p. 285 Comme une Hirondelle au Printems Any chance that Le Cocq translates to rooster (cock)? Theorbo Cosi la Tortorella (with theorbo, tenor, flute, vdg, 2 violins, basso) in Handel’s La Resurrezione

[LUTE] Re: Lute publications

2014-03-19 Thread Rockford Mjos
As I remember Anthony's project, the original is in score format and he is providing an editorial intabulation for performers. The options brought up by Chris are interesting. My wife is considering publishing on a specialized topic and weighing the pros and cons of print versus electronic

[LUTE] Re: BL Add. MS 15117 song request

2014-03-12 Thread Rockford Mjos
and an Edition of the Texts, Elise Bickford Jorgens Band 1 von British Library Manuscripts, British Library If anybody is interested I have a mint copy that I have been thinking about selling.. All the best Mark On Mar 11, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Rockford Mjos wrote: Might anyone

[LUTE] BL Add. MS 15117 song request

2014-03-11 Thread Rockford Mjos
Might anyone be able to share a tab or transcription of the lute song Awake ye woeful wights from BL Add. MS 15117? -- Rocky To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Howard Skempton; excerpt from Par la bande, written for Nigel North

2014-02-19 Thread Rockford Mjos
Thanks for posting this. You continue to bring our attention to interesting music with your fine performances. How much of the piece did you play? Thanks again for the music! -- Rocky On Feb 19, 2014, at 4:04 PM, WALSH STUART wrote: This is a shot at an opening chunk of 'Par la bande'

[LUTE] Re: How to cut fret shims.

2014-02-09 Thread Rockford Mjos
I find fret shims sometimes useful on my archlute and theorbo, where I don't always get a new fret tight enough before that very short slide up to position. Instead of throwing that new fret out I will shim with wood or rolled thick paper. If older frets become loose but are still serviceable,

[LUTE] Re: A Christmas Contrafactum

2014-01-21 Thread Rockford Mjos
I love the idea and the performance! -- Rocky On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:01 AM, David Tayler wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlE0ibIt0shd=1 -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: music slowing software?

2013-12-10 Thread Rockford Mjos
I use Transcribe on a Mac. http://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html I can put in markers for measures, or sections. It will slow down the file by 1/2 or 1/4 with easy toggling between speeds. Clicking and dragging over a section will loop that -- and it can be a single note, a group

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: MARGIT HJUXE

2013-11-30 Thread Rockford Mjos
Jeg beklager for feilen, Trond! I'm sorry for the mistake, Trond! -- R On Nov 28, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: On 11/17/2013 11:14 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: MARGIT HJUXE Une Ariette de Norvègeavec cinq doubles - http://polyhymnion.org/swv/music/margit/margit.mp3

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: MARGIT HJUXE

2013-11-29 Thread Rockford Mjos
Takk Roman och Bengt! Here is the correct link to the score: http://polyhymnion.org/swv/music/liti/liti1.pdf -- Rocky On Nov 28, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: On 11/17/2013 11:14 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: MARGIT HJUXE Une Ariette de Norvègeavec cinq doubles -

[LUTE] Re: Petrus Fabricius

2013-08-03 Thread Rockford Mjos
Kristian Buhl-Mortensen has graciously posted his edition of some songs and solos from this MS at: http://buhl-mortensen.dk/musik.html -- Rocky Mjos To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Music editions questions

2013-03-11 Thread Rockford Mjos
I am considering purchasing some music editions, but know only a little about them from the publisher's catalog -- none of my immediate friends own them, and I have never seen them in a library -- and am seeking comments to help me decide whether to invest in them or not. I would like comments

[LUTE] Re: Music editions questions

2013-03-11 Thread Rockford Mjos
- and then decide yourself... Regards Albert TREE EDITION Albert Reyerman Finkenberg 89 23558 Luebeck Germany albertreyer...@kabelmail.de www.Tree-Edition.com ++49(0)451 899 78 48 More Music Books at http://tree-edition.magix.net/public/ Am 11.03.2013 08:15, schrieb Rockford Mjos: I am

[LUTE] Re: Music editions questions

2013-03-11 Thread Rockford Mjos
Never mind. Mr. Reyerman's samples have answered my questions. I have decided to order the Kopperud duets, De Visee for archlute, and Croton's Rembrance (Shakespeare) songs. -- R On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:15 AM, Rockford Mjos wrote: I am considering purchasing some music editions, but know

[LUTE] Re: anyone know these two 17th century English tunes?

2013-02-26 Thread Rockford Mjos
Hi Stuart. I don't recognize either melody. Of the Rose bush -- second system, 6th note -- I would read that as a mid staff A rather than the higher F in the print. I don't see either mentioned with these titles in Simpson's The Broadside Ballad. I used dissertation (on microfiche in the

[LUTE] test

2013-01-13 Thread Rockford Mjos
tap-tap-tap -- R To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: English music on my web site

2013-01-13 Thread Rockford Mjos
Thanks for updating us! -- R On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Nancy Carlin wrote: I have a few new pieces on my web site [1]www.GroundsandDivisions.info Check out the 2 versions of Chow Bente and the 4 versions of Robin (Sweet, Jolly, Is to the Greenwood Gone and [Galliard]). They are

[LUTE] Re: John Cage centennial: A Room (played on a lute)

2012-12-21 Thread Rockford Mjos
Hello, Stuart. Very nice! I have ordered the music through my library to have a first-hand look at the score. -- R On Dec 21, 2012, at 3:08 AM, WALSH STUART wrote: The little piano piece, A Room was written several years before 4' 33. It can be played as it is or with preparations

[LUTE] Re: Gratitude, for lute (2012), by Gilbert Isbin

2012-12-13 Thread Rockford Mjos
And I have gratitude for your continued presentations of interesting music, Stuart. Last night I ordered Isbin's two solo collections from the Lute Society, in part due to your fine performances of them. I have performed some of Isbin's easy pieces and announced the movements before I

[LUTE] Re: Gratitude, for lute (2012), by Gilbert Isbin

2012-12-13 Thread Rockford Mjos
Indeed! Thank you, Gilbert! -- R On Dec 13, 2012, at 3:04 PM, WALSH STUART wrote: On 13/12/2012 17:30, Rockford Mjos wrote: And I have gratitude for your continued presentations of interesting music, Stuart. Last night I ordered Isbin's two solo collections from the Lute Society

[LUTE] Re: English renaissance Christmas songs

2012-09-26 Thread Rockford Mjos
Campion: Now winter nights http://gerbode.net/ft2/composers/Campion/songs/ book_3/12_now_winter_nights/ On Sep 26, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Edward Martin wrote: Dear Collective wisdom, I was just employed to perform in a number of concerts with a choral group in December. A special request is

[LUTE] Re: instrumental air de cours

2012-08-30 Thread Rockford Mjos
Lovely, David! Thank you, also, for sharing your arrangement. I recently came across the CD Tabarinades by Les Boreades, which has two airs de cour played as solos by Sylvain Bergeron: Si jamais mon ame, and Objet dont les charmes si doux. Somewhat relatedly, Bergeron has also recorded for

[LUTE] Re: folksongs

2012-08-12 Thread Rockford Mjos
There are also non-English sources which this discussion brings to mind. Here are a few: Delaborde's Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne (1780) includes melodies which are supposedly from Scandinavia, plus Air Irelandois, Airs des Sauvages du Canada, Airs Chinois, Air de danse Russe, Danse

[LUTE] Re: Aegidius MS?

2012-08-05 Thread Rockford Mjos
In addition to Nancy's generous work, the first three Courantes in this LSA edition are from the manuscript: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/publications/Editions/09-Gautier.html -- R On Aug 4, 2012, at 1:01 PM, William Samson wrote: Dear Bottomless Pit of Knowledge and Expertise,

[LUTE] Re: Lute Ensemble

2012-07-24 Thread Rockford Mjos
I am also very appreciative of Anton's efforts and generosity! (Thank you, Anton!) I like that Anton notifies this list of recent uploads and changes. It helps to keep me up-to-date with Anton's postings (no small task!). This list doesn't seem, to me, overburdened by this sort of

[LUTE] Kremberg posted

2012-06-12 Thread Rockford Mjos
I have just seen that a scan of Kremberg's Musicalische Gemüths- Ergötzung (1689) has been posted on the IMSLP. http://imslp.org/wiki/Musicalische_Gemüths-Ergötzung,_oder_Arien_ (Kremberg,_Jakob)#IMSLP232519 This new scan is much clearer than the microfilm I was working from for my (mostly

[LUTE] Re: Calatas

2012-06-01 Thread Rockford Mjos
I believe there is also a Calata in the Thibault Ms. -- R On Jun 1, 2012, at 6:28 AM, Monica Hall wrote: That is useful, but are there any later example from the end of the 16th century? MOnica - Original Message - From: A. J. Ness arthurjn...@verizon.net To: Monica Hall

[LUTE] Re: A special request

2012-05-30 Thread Rockford Mjos
http://www.dana-howe.com/dana-howe/En_Theorbo_Tablatures.html On May 30, 2012, at 9:44 AM, hera caius wrote: Hello, I have played some of the music from the Kapsberger third book for theorbo. This book I received from somebody but it some of the pages are missing...so it

[LUTE] Re: Making Fronimo Files Into EPS

2012-05-16 Thread Rockford Mjos
My problem was that I was importing a PDF into InDesign for my notes to my Valdambrini edition (available on my EGV Ning page) and then generating a new PDF from that. Those imported PDF examples were not re-PDFing correctly. So I just made those examples into a TIFF to look correct. I don't

[LUTE] si dolce è 'l tormento by Monteverdi

2012-05-03 Thread Rockford Mjos
You can find a facsimile reproduction of the piece on page 69 of Michael Gavito's thesis Carlo Milanuzzi's Quatro Scherzo... A serach for Michael Gavito +Carlo Milanuzzi should take you to the PDF. A modern typeset version (following the original) is posted on my Ning page.

[LUTE] Re: In darkness let me dwell

2012-05-03 Thread Rockford Mjos
A thought that comes to my mind is to find a midi version of the lute song and pull that into your notation or tab program to use that as a starting point. At least I can bring it in to to Finale and do that. BTW, Stefan Lundgren's Op. 35 composition Dawn for solo theorbo is based on five

[LUTE] Re: Lute and Flute Weekend

2012-04-20 Thread Rockford Mjos
Anyone know the name of the music done on bagpipe and lute? Thanks for posting these, Daniel! -- R On Apr 18, 2012, at 8:41 PM, Daniel Shoskes wrote: [2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNghI5cCO44 To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Gioseffo Guami - Toccata

2012-04-20 Thread Rockford Mjos
Thanks for your continued work in enriching our repertoire! -- R On Apr 20, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Anton Höger wrote: hi, A fine and new intavolation for 2 lutes ad Quartam -Gioseffo Guami - Toccata - ( Gioseffo Guami - 1540-1611) Enjoy it Anton -- To get on or off

[BAROQUE-LUTE] BWV 997 and 998 (and more)

2011-12-07 Thread Rockford Mjos
Hello Arthur. Thank you for pointing us to Lebetter's article. The first footnote is very interesting and has had me doing a little further searching about Dirksen's ideas about the lute/lautenwerk online. (The books don't seem to be in our library's holdings.) Pieter Dirksen's site does

[LUTE] Re: Lute, Accordian Debussy

2011-12-05 Thread Rockford Mjos
Wow, I like it! But I'm still a little in shock. I have sent it on to my accordion-playing friends. (Perhaps a new, unexpected opportunity for gigs!) -- R On Dec 5, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: Here's the Janacek link -

[LUTE] Re: RT on Dutch Radio!!!

2011-12-05 Thread Rockford Mjos
Congratulations to you, Roman, and all of the participants! (Especially list and Ning contributors Stuart, Jean-Marie, and Trond.) Very enjoyable. -- R On Dec 5, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: For those who missed the show, the archived stream is available now -

[LUTE] Re: Cavazzoni, Girolamo - Christe dalla Messa Cunctipotens

2011-11-30 Thread Rockford Mjos
Your work is much appreciated. Thanks! -- R On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Anton Höger wrote: hi, I have uploaded a new lute duet for 2 equal lutes (Unisono) - Cavazzoni, Girolamo - Christe dalla Messa Cunctipotens- It is a short but really very fine music. Enjoy it. Anton

[LUTE] En m'en revenant / More Palatino

2011-11-06 Thread Rockford Mjos
I am working on a program for December and have been collecting pieces related to the December holiday season. I have already gathered many settings of En m'en revenant / Branle de St. Nicolas / More Palatino (Fuhrmann, Hove, Bacheler, Ulm mandora, Buonamente, Frescobaldi, Gibbons, Besard,

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Angelique music?

2011-11-04 Thread Rockford Mjos
You did ask for _any_ music... There is one example of Angelique music in my Kremberg edition on my Early Guitar and Vihuela Ning page. Page 29 of the PDF. Krembergs tuning chart shows 16 (if I've counted correctly), but the music for the sample piece uses (only) 13. Have fun with your

[LUTE] Re: lute notation

2011-10-22 Thread Rockford Mjos
I'm not quite convinced by this form of transcription, myself. I have seen editions using a similar technique in decades past, including an early use of a computer program to convert tab to staff (perhaps it was German tab and used black noteheads). But Finale can recreate this style. I

[LUTE] Re: Guillaume Morlaye, Adrien le Roy?

2011-10-09 Thread Rockford Mjos
The Le Roy and Brayssing books (and some other 4-course arrangements) have been posted on the Early Guitar and Vihuela Ning site. Have a look here, and click the from so-and-so link to take you to the page. http://earlyguitar.ning.com/page/scores-1 -- R On Oct 9, 2011, at 1:23 PM, William

[LUTE] Re: The portrait of Denis Gaultier?

2011-09-07 Thread Rockford Mjos
The Prado website says ... The presence of the musical instrument doesn't necessarily indicate that the model was a musician. ... Nor the length of the right hand thumb nail? -- R On Sep 7, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Mathias Rösel wrote:

[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Rockford Mjos
On all of these dimensions, are people talking about distances of string center to string center (which is how I understand these type of measurements)? Or might some people be measuring the gap between the string edges? Last night I stumbled across notes I had taken from a 1979 LSA class

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Love is the Cause CD (17c Scottish music)

2011-07-06 Thread Rockford Mjos
Love is the Cause Jonathan Dunford Rob MacKillop Alpha 530 - 1 CD This is a lovely CD! I enjoyed the lyrical, singing quality that both MacKillop (on Baroque guitar) and Dunford (on viola da gamba) brought to these wonderful pieces. (And who doesn't love good Scottish tunes?) The program

[LUTE] Love is the Cause CD

2011-07-06 Thread Rockford Mjos
Love is the Cause Jonathan Dunford Rob MacKillop Alpha 530 - 1 CD This is a lovely CD! I enjoyed the lyrical, singing quality that both MacKillop (on Baroque guitar) and Dunford (on viola da gamba) brought to these wonderful pieces. (And who doesn't love good Scottish tunes?) The program

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Test_rm

2011-06-19 Thread Rockford Mjos
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[LUTE] Test-rm

2011-06-19 Thread Rockford Mjos
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