[LUTE] Re: bandora question

2019-11-19 Thread WALSH STUART
On 11/19/19 5:57 AM, WALSH STUART wrote: What is the current thinking on Ian Harwood's closing remarks on the bandora in New Grove? "...the technique required in the solo music is considerable, involving some extreme stretches for the left hand. It seems likely that s

[LUTE] bandora question

2019-11-19 Thread WALSH STUART
What is the current thinking on Ian Harwood's closing remarks on the bandora in New Grove? "...the technique required in the solo music is considerable, involving some extreme stretches for the left hand. It seems likely that such music would have been played on the smaller,

[LUTE] Re: Johann Kropfgans

2018-05-16 Thread WALSH STUART
On 5/15/2018 9:22 PM, Stephan Olbertz wrote: Think of the galant lute trio like a piano trio... You get the idea ;-) Best Stephan But are these the galant trios where the lute part is more or less doubled by the violin (sometimes flute) and cello? Stuart -Ursprüngliche

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread WALSH STUART
If it seems odd to want to play modern music on a lute it is surely odder to only play a lute and only ever to play  music that was composed centuries ago. Perhaps no one is odd enough for that! If there were such a person - who would only, ever,  play centuries' old music (however gem-laden

[LUTE] Francesco's thimbles

2018-02-27 Thread WALSH STUART
Somebody asked me if I knew of the source (from 1526?) that claims that Francesco played with two silver thimbles and feathers!? I know that Douglas Alton Smith quotes the story but the person who asked wants to know the actual source. I don't recall hearing this odd story!

[LUTE] Re: New music

2017-12-28 Thread WALSH STUART
I am an amateur player and I really enjoy encountering and playing contemporary music. Much of it, though, is off limits to all but virtuoso specialists like Peter  Söderberg. At a recent Lute Society a leading British lutenist played a modern piece and he underlined several times that new

[LUTE] Re: not about strings !

2017-12-14 Thread WALSH STUART
Luth, pouvoir de la musique et J. Titelouze. Le 2 mars 1622 Jehan Titelouze écrit au Père Mersenne à propos de la puissance de la musique des Anciens sur les passions : « …Il me souvient d'avoir veu en ma jeunesse tout le monde admirer et se ravir d'un homme qui

[LUTE-BUILDER] Beginner's question on simple neck-body joint on a flat-backed instrument

2017-11-06 Thread WALSH STUART
I want try making a simplified mandore. I can't 'do' lute ribs and a lute body and I can't carve from the solid so it will have to be flat-backed. It will be an instrument with similar proportions to a mandore...but with no historic precedent, of course. I intend to use some of

[LUTE] Re: Physical Exercises for left hand.

2017-10-02 Thread WALSH STUART
Just a few thoughts: I strongly agree with the "go carefully" approach.  Playing the lute is (or should be) physically easy.  Think how little effort you actually need to hold down a string, or to pluck a string. It's much less than you might think. I'm a bit sceptical about "exercises"

[LUTE-BUILDER] general question on flat-backed instruments (not lutes!)

2017-02-27 Thread WALSH STUART
This is a very basic question and I may have got things confused! Whenever I see constructional details of flat-backed plucked instruments after about 1800 or so they all seem to use either solid linings, or kerfing or tentallones to join the top and the back to the sides. This is true (I

[LUTE] very off-topic: Niccolò Dôthel and James Oswald (18th century composers)

2016-07-28 Thread WALSH STUART
I wonder if anyone can help? Niccolò Dôthel was a professional flute player and composer born 1721 (Luneville) and died 1810 (Florence). An entry in IMSLP (of Dôthel's music) says: According to Grove Music, "An accurate listing of Dôthel’s output is severely impeded by the fact that James

[LUTE] a Nick Drake song arranged by Gilbert Isbin for lute

2016-07-19 Thread WALSH STUART
Gilbert Isbin's arrangement of Three Hours by Nick Drake who died, aged 26, in 1974. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw5ofZ8gVws Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] A 'con spirito' for wire-strung guittar in C, 1760s

2016-07-06 Thread WALSH STUART
This simple little piece for wire-strung guittar is from Serenata VIII (from XII Serenata's) which was published c.1760 and then again c.1770. This serenata begins with an Amoroso and then this 'Conspirito'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM5HR6d8_f0 Stuart --- This email has been

[LUTE] Ballo Quarto (1688) for colasioncino and guitar

2016-07-05 Thread WALSH STUART
a little piece for 2-string colascioncino and guitar. The Ballo is edited by Enzo Puzzovio and Martyn Hodgson created the guitar part https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4-PizEuFU4 Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[LUTE] 3 tiny pieces for long-necked 2-string lute

2016-06-23 Thread WALSH STUART
Three little pieces from near the beginning of a dombra tutor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZK7nfTACps Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] new piece for lute by Gilbert Isbin

2016-05-27 Thread WALSH STUART
Elegy, for lute... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ChU6zbaaw Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Gagliarda Sesta by M. Pesenti for 2-string colascioncino and guitar

2016-05-18 Thread WALSH STUART
Interesting - but where did you get the piece from in the first place? What instrument(s) is the music for originally? Monica "Clavicembalo e altri Stomenti" and I got it from a Diletto Musicale edition from the 1960s. Friedrich Cerha says it's for upper voice and bass. These little

[LUTE] Gagliarda Sesta by M. Pesenti for 2-string colascioncino and guitar

2016-05-18 Thread WALSH STUART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XDZE-EXqOE I only know a handful of pieces, all dances, by Pesenti. They are tuneful and with balanced phrases - almost too balanced. At the completely opposite end of the spectrum would be quite a lot of Italian guitar music of this same era! Stuart

[VIHUELA] Re: Z Taylor B-guitar

2016-05-10 Thread WALSH STUART
On 10/05/2016 13:20, David van Ooijen wrote: Friend of mine is looking at this factory (?) b-guitar. Anybody has experience with this? [1]http://www.mid-east.com/Strings/Roosebeck-Guitars/Roosebeck-Sellas-B aroque-Guitar-5-course-Zachary-Taylor-Blemished They are selling for

[LUTE] Menuet (c.1750) from Moravian Choralbuch

2016-04-25 Thread WALSH STUART
Surprisingly, at the end of a MS of hymns in a Moravian Choralbuch there are a few dances; some menuets (not minuets) and a couple of polonaises. No instrument is specified but the tuning is GCEgbe, the ' maj7' tuning associated with the cithrinchen. Moravian women are known to have played

[LUTE] Tune from opéra comique from 1772 for cistre ou guittare allemande

2016-04-05 Thread WALSH STUART
C.F.A Pollet published a version of this ariette with cistre accompaniment but also a simple (possibly a bit crude) setting for solo cistre. The ariette is from La Clochette by Edigio Duni first performed in 1768 The cistre ou guittare allemande is wire-strung and tuned e-a-d-e-a-c#-e.

[LUTE] Ariette for cistre ou guitarre allemande

2016-03-24 Thread WALSH STUART
The cistre ou guitarre allemande is a wire-strung instrument (brass, iron and wound strings) and was popular in France, especially in the 1770s and 1780s. Here is a simple setting of an ariette from the opera-comique, La Clochette by E. Duni and arranged by C.F.A.Pollet for cistre.

[LUTE] Giacomo Merchi: Minuetto for colascioncino and five-course guitar

2016-03-15 Thread WALSH STUART
Originally for English guitar with an accompaniment for a violin but here adapted for two-string colascioncino and five-course guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT22b2HoNsI Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[LUTE] Nacon, a new lute piece by Gilbert Isbin

2016-03-09 Thread WALSH STUART
Nacon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFvZZa2bo2I Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] lute and uke!

2016-02-19 Thread WALSH STUART
Amy Beach, Pantalon, 1894 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXAm1heS9T8 Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Merchi: Arietta (colascioncino and guitar)

2016-02-12 Thread WALSH STUART
A short piece (song) by G. Merchi played on two-string colascioncino and five-course guitar. Perhaps Merchi got his pupils to play this sort of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn3h33PmE4A Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.

[LUTE] lute and uke! Trygve Torjussen

2016-01-25 Thread WALSH STUART
'A Lapland Idyl' (not idyll for some reason), originally for piano, by Trygve Torjussen, 1913 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZSVmKmbZck Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] short piece for colascioncino and Baroque guitar

2016-01-11 Thread WALSH STUART
A minuetto by G. B. Marella, orginally for two guittars in A (but also guittar in C with figured bass) 1762, but here on 2-string colascioncino and five-course guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0OW_5PGi2Y Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus

[LUTE] Re: colascioncino and five-course guitar

2016-01-06 Thread WALSH STUART
On 06/01/2016 19:38, WALSH STUART wrote: On 06/01/2016 19:24, WALSH STUART wrote: The small colascione, the colascioncino (here as a two-string instrument) with guitar playing a Ballo by Antonii (edited by Enzo Puzzovio) audio fixed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N665ed_AmSw Stuart

[LUTE] colascioncino and five-course guitar

2016-01-06 Thread WALSH STUART
The small colascione, the colascioncino (here as a two-string instrument) with guitar playing a Ballo by Antonii (edited by Enzo Puzzovio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6WZnl3cjpI Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.

[LUTE] Re: colascioncino and five-course guitar

2016-01-06 Thread WALSH STUART
On 06/01/2016 19:24, WALSH STUART wrote: The small colascione, the colascioncino (here as a two-string instrument) with guitar playing a Ballo by Antonii (edited by Enzo Puzzovio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6WZnl3cjpI Problems with the audio! Stuart --- This email has been

[LUTE] Re: Performing lute in ensemble

2015-12-27 Thread WALSH STUART
Dear list: I’ve been having fun with the Lauffensteiner g minor “concerto� (andante:https://youtu.be/q9dV2QbcBc8 ). In the Brussels Ms it has parts for 2 violins and 1 cello (OK, 2 treble clef instruments and a bass clef instrument with figures). In

[LUTE] new piece for lute by Gilbert Isbin

2015-12-24 Thread WALSH STUART
Here is a version of Flower Thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8CWoGoIpeQ Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] lute and uke! Gabriel Pierné

2015-12-05 Thread WALSH STUART
Chanson d'autrefois, fromm Album pour mes petits amis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp2raYF-J24 Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Another lute picture?

2015-11-24 Thread WALSH STUART
On 24/11/2015 15:36, David Van Edwards wrote: However I think the painting I discussed was simply copying the prop[s] from Eglon van der Neer's works! The physical impossibility of holding such a lute in such a position without grossly disturbing the diapason strings makes me

[LUTE] Vaughan Williams on lute and uke!

2015-11-10 Thread WALSH STUART
The sky Above the Roof (1908) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m63WSIyDKWA the band could have been a bit tighter but they were going for a pastoral vibe. Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off

[LUTE] Re: advice on headphones for home recording?

2015-11-10 Thread WALSH STUART
esigned for studio use. andy On 08/11/2015 21:50, WALSH STUART wrote: Researching headphones on the Internet is a bit of a nightmare! I just want some better headphones for creating duets: recording one part then playing it back and recording a second part while

[LUTE] advice on headphones for home recording?

2015-11-08 Thread WALSH STUART
Researching headphones on the Internet is a bit of a nightmare! I just want some better headphones for creating duets: recording one part then playing it back and recording a second part while listening to the first part. I haven't got fancy or expensive recording equipment - just portable

[LUTE] Re: Spencer Collection, Royal Academy of Music, London

2015-10-28 Thread WALSH STUART
Society Journal. (Sprightly and Cheerful Musick, 1983) I don't think it matters too much where the stuff is, but how accessible it is. Stuart -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of WALSH STUART Sent: 27 October 2015 22:49

[LUTE] Spencer Collection, Royal Academy of Music, London

2015-10-27 Thread WALSH STUART
I'm sure this quote from the Royal Academy of Music makes sense - but it seems puzzling. Did cash-rich museums/libraries abroad want to get the Collection and so money had to be raised in Britain to prevent it from being whisked away? The Spencer Collection was acquired by the

[LUTE] Re: Spencer Collection, Royal Academy of Music, London

2015-10-27 Thread WALSH STUART
originals to Lute Society meetings, and they would be passed round the room. That could never happen now. A 'bit of a gift' at a million pounds in 1998? Stewart. -Original Message- From: M Hall Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 3:14 PM To: 'WALSH STUART' Cc: Lutelist Subject: [LUTE] Re

[LUTE] Robert Spencer collection Royal Academy of Music

2015-10-26 Thread WALSH STUART
How accessible is the music in the Robert Spencer Collection? Can you get to see it? Can you get copies of it? (I just found notes from decades ago from a visit to Barclay Oval to see English guitar related music - and it would be really interesting to see some of it again) The British

[LUTE] ariette for cistre ou guitthare allemande 1770s

2015-10-22 Thread WALSH STUART
Here is a little Ariette for 'cistre ou guitharre allemande' from the comic opera Isabelle et Gertrude, arranged by C.F. A Pollet in the 1770s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQc_eK4uqc8 Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.

[LUTE] website on cistre updated

2015-10-21 Thread WALSH STUART
I've updated a little website on the 'cistre ou guitharre allemande' (and I'm continuing to work on it). I've changed the content in some ways and there are now more examples of the music and there are some recordings. The instrument was popular in France in the 1770s and 1780s and the

[LUTE] 2 allemandes for German guitar! (aka cythre)

2015-10-19 Thread WALSH STUART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50TQp8i2D7o Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] a little minuet for wire-strung guittar 1760s

2015-10-14 Thread WALSH STUART
This little minuet is from 'Three Sonatas...blah-blah...for one and two guittars of different authors', London 1768. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtdIQascDgc Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or

[LUTE] Re: Violin and lute.

2015-10-13 Thread WALSH STUART
On 13/10/2015 09:57, Matthew Daillie wrote: The French Lute society publishes two collections of music which should be perfect for what you're looking for. They are volumes three and eight of Le Secret des Muses series: http://www.sf-luth.org/index.php?Partitions/Le_Secret_des_Muses But

[LUTE] lute and uke! Reaper's Dance and Andantino Pastorale

2015-09-22 Thread WALSH STUART
An imaginary lute-uke duo of Dolmetsch types playing antique and/or rustic music written in the first half of the 20th century. A cheery dance from 1913 by John Ireland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFPXdwub3EY and a lugubrious pastorale (from a collection Au pied de l'Autel published

[LUTE] lute and uke! Le gai vigneron and Lavandin de Haute-Provence

2015-09-09 Thread WALSH STUART
Two tiny pieces (c.50" each) for lute and uke. Jacques Ibert: Le gai vigneron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIdDDMh6dPo Germaine Tailleferre: Lavandin de Haute-Provence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wskVCY_M1MQ (the tiny four-string guitar, the machete was the precursor of the

[LUTE] a new piece for lute by Gilbert Isbin

2015-08-25 Thread WALSH STUART
Elegant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVw30e_7kOE Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: a new piece for lute by Gilbert Isbin

2015-08-25 Thread WALSH STUART
*** On 25 August 2015 at 21:59, WALSH STUART [3]s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: Elegant [4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVw30e_7kOE Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. [5]https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get

[LUTE] new piece for lute by Gilbert Isbin

2015-08-15 Thread WALSH STUART
If I Cross Your Path Again (second species) - lute piece 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9AMKkjZfJA Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Appropriate instrument for Bernard de Ventadorn

2015-06-04 Thread WALSH STUART
interesting David! Stuart *** David van Ooijen [1]davidvanooi...@gmail.com [2]www.davidvanooijen.nl *** On 4 June 2015 at 10:40, WALSH STUART [3]s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hello Lutekin! What plucked instrument

[LUTE] Re: Appropriate instrument for Bernard de Ventadorn

2015-06-04 Thread WALSH STUART
Hello Lutekin! What plucked instrument would be appropriate for accompanying the works of Bernard de Ventadorn? Thanks in advance, Edward Yong Gittern, citole. But I wonder what an accompaniment would be. A 'mere' drone? Can't be major or minor chords! Random fourths and fifths? A

[LUTE] a new lute piece by Gilbert Isbin

2015-06-01 Thread WALSH STUART
Peace Piece 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MQxt0myvpI Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Howard Skempton: Prelude 5 (played on a lute)

2015-05-04 Thread WALSH STUART
A very attractive, enigmatic, modal piece. I think it sounds well on a lute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Apxqc-wpk Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at

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

2015-03-05 Thread WALSH STUART
finding there to the list. There are about two dozen other sources of interest . . . Gary Dr. Gary R. Boye Professor and Music Librarian Appalachian State University On 3/4/2015 10:29 AM, WALSH STUART wrote: On 04/03/2015 13:31, Gary R. Boye wrote: Yes . . . I followed right along there and I

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

2015-03-04 Thread WALSH STUART
. And this is a publication with illustrations - not a personal MS. Surely some sort of explanation could be given? Stuart Some funny pictures in it though ;-) Gary On 3/4/2015 4:04 AM, WALSH STUART wrote: Pesori not Pesaro, indeed... The relationship of this book to other Pesaro tablatures

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

2015-03-04 Thread WALSH STUART
The relationship of this book to other Pesaro tablatures is complex; I hope to publish a web page with information on them soon. I visited Rochester in November 2013 and moved these two tablatures and a few other things up in the queue; it took them awhile but they came up in January. As

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

2015-03-04 Thread WALSH STUART
Pesori not Pesaro, indeed... The relationship of this book to other Pesaro tablatures is complex; I hope to publish a web page with information on them soon. I visited Rochester in November 2013 and moved these two tablatures and a few other things up in the queue; it took them awhile but

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

2015-03-03 Thread WALSH STUART
Very interesting. The second one has lots of 'mixed tab' too. I don't know about the alfabeto pieces but the mixed tab pieces look like another publication by Pesaro: on the face of it, utterly unplayable gibberish. Yet nicely printed with drawings etc. Very strange in that it's hard to see

[LUTE] Matthew Leigh Embleton: Tasmanian Lake

2015-02-17 Thread WALSH STUART
Mathew has made a version of his piece, Tasmanian Lake, for Renaissance lute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSB2kswovl4 Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at

[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] little piece for machete from 1840s

2015-01-20 Thread WALSH STUART
this little piece is from a manuscript belonging to a Mrs Christopher, Madeira 1840s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGTAIb19bR4 Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] a little piece for 19th century machete

2015-01-16 Thread WALSH STUART
a 'quadrilha' written (or arranged) for the four-string machete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZbySl6iqhU a few hundred pieces survive (from 19th century Madeira) for this little guitar, precursor to the uke. Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus

[LUTE] Re: a little piece for 19th century machete

2015-01-16 Thread WALSH STUART
to use! Stuart Chris. On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 5:51 AM, WALSH STUART [1]s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: a 'quadrilha' written (or arranged) for the four-string machete: [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZbySl6iqhU a few hundred pieces survive (from 19th century Madeira

[LUTE] Identity Theft in Georgian London?

2014-12-16 Thread WALSH STUART
I had a go at writing a sort of blog post using WordPress. Although the topic is an obscure publication for the 18th century wire-strung guittar it's an intriguing little enigma and still not resolved. http://www.tuningsinthirds.com/blog/ Stuart --- This email has been checked for

[LUTE] A new piece for lute by Gilbert Isbin

2014-11-13 Thread WALSH STUART
a new lute piece, A Breath of Love for solo lute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1rxMLSSj7c Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] 15th century basse danse (gittern and lute)

2014-10-29 Thread WALSH STUART
Ian Gatiss made some arrangements of 15th century dance tenors in the 1980s - for people who wanted to try to recreate the dances. The original music for 'Filles a marier' is just a series of long notes. Ian Gatiss created the upper and lower parts which evidently would have been improvised

[LUTE] a short 'drone' branle for mandore

2014-10-28 Thread WALSH STUART
There are four branles in the Ulm tablatures with a sort of drone (root-fifth in the lower part). Similar pieces occasionally occur for Renaissance lute and for four-course guitar though I can't recall any for D minor lute or five-course guitar. Here is Branle 1 - with help (or hindrance) from

[LUTE] a new piece for lute by Gilbert Isbin

2014-10-14 Thread WALSH STUART
Peace Piece 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElKQhMhV5kg Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Kapsberger video

2014-09-28 Thread WALSH STUART
On 28/09/2014 22:08, David van Ooijen wrote: Before today's concert I experimented with a new recording setup. Find two Toccata's by Kapberger here (clouds and a few birds included): [1]http://youtu.be/CGBtVhOp41U Very contemplative, David. Stuart David

[LUTE] Giacomo Merchi: Minuetto for two wire-strung guittars

2014-09-22 Thread WALSH STUART
Minuetto 1 and 2 from Sonata IV, Dodici Suonate, London 1766 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-2vO90Dcec ..burbles along quite nicely! Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list

[LUTE] Gilbert Isbin: Peace Piece 3 (for lute)

2014-09-16 Thread WALSH STUART
my version of a new lute piece by Gilbert Isbin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf0Ea35HfZQ Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Transcriptions

2014-09-13 Thread WALSH STUART
On 13/09/2014 10:02, Mathias Rösel wrote: Dear everybody, There are three chaconnes, actually written for the angélique, that I've posted on Danny Shoskes’ Lute Ning page (thank you, Danny, for offering that great location!). I posted them in staff notation, due to two reasons. One is, the

[LUTE] Gilbert Isbin: Peace Piece 2 (for lute)

2014-09-05 Thread WALSH STUART
A new composition by Gilbert Isbin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ct9090SVpc Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] a little galliard for lute

2014-08-14 Thread WALSH STUART
from Lute News 104. John H. Robinson only managed to find 29 versions of this piece! This is the 21st: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFQ7dlfMCkI Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off

[LUTE] Lute piece by Gilbert Isbin: All Too Soon

2014-07-27 Thread WALSH STUART
lute piece, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHB1YRt8Q2Y Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Howard Skempton at his most extreme!

2014-07-08 Thread WALSH STUART
Howard Skempton co-founded the Scratch Orchestra with Cornelius Cardew (and others) in the 1960s. It was an experimental ensemble using graphic scores and improvisation. In the last few weeks Skempton has been on (UK) Radio 3 with a performance of John Cage's Fontana Mix (20 pages of graphic

[LUTE] Howard Skempton: Prelude 2

2014-07-02 Thread WALSH STUART
A version of Howard Skempton's piano piece, Prelude 2, played on a lute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii4QLaWszOo Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information

[LUTE] Re: viola project

2014-06-26 Thread WALSH STUART
On 26/06/2014 14:40, Martin Shepherd wrote: Hi All, My website now includes a page on a recent project to make a viola da mano: http://www.luteshop.co.uk/Viola_da_Mano.html I hope you enjoy it. Martin This is very interesting to me, Martin because I joined a part-time beginner's

[LUTE] new piece for lute by Gilbert Isbin

2014-06-22 Thread WALSH STUART
Here is an attempt at Moonlight in Brugge, for 6-course lute, by Gilbert Isbin (something to do with light, I think, rather than a tryst in Bruges) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmoHrGG9NlY Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is

[LUTE] O Glorioso Domina (c.1470) played on a lute

2014-06-16 Thread WALSH STUART
Could this little piece (from the Buxheimer Orgelbuch) be the sort of thing that the new fingerstyle lute players played towards the end of the 15th century. It fits well in the range of a five-course lute and no parts cross. No doubt the more accomplished players would jazz it up more. (I

[LUTE] Re: 15th century duo (left-handers playing right-handedly)

2014-06-07 Thread WALSH STUART
On 06/06/2014 23:06, Braig, Eugene wrote: Groovy! What plectrum did you use here? I use several incarnations of plectrum depending on era of music and instrument at hand. . . . And, in spite of my sinistral tendencies, my plectrum, punteado, and occasional rasgueado efforts are always

[LUTE] 15th century duo for gittern and dulcimer

2014-06-06 Thread WALSH STUART
A little experiment - a 15th century German keyboard piece but played on a gittern with a dulcimer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WVktwUonYA Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off

[LUTE] Re: 15th century duo for gittern and dulcimer

2014-06-06 Thread WALSH STUART
sharp to the Korg. It sounds odd to me but seems pretty close to what the Korg claims to be a C#.) Stuart -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of WALSH STUART Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 7:36 AM To: lutelist Net Subject

[LUTE] Light AT Midnight - new lute piece by Gilbert Isbin

2014-05-31 Thread WALSH STUART
Here is a version of a new piece by Gilbert Isbin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZaAwN_XWG4 Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] A bit OT: 'In The Orchard' arr. by R.Turovsky for Baroque lute but played on 19th C 7-string guitar

2014-05-27 Thread WALSH STUART
I don't know why a song about a girl and her lover spending a night in a cherry orchard should be quite so gloomy. Mother (presumably the girl's)A appears in a later verse but I don't know what she says or does. And the opening phrase is eerily like the Red Flag - which might be

[LUTE] R.Turovsky: Polonaise

2014-05-09 Thread WALSH STUART
(Swedish?) Polonaise based on a traditional tune, originally for Baroque lute but here on 8-course Ren lute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELTquHJbx8 Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on

[LUTE] Matthew Leigh Embleton: Small Floating Crafts (Conclusion) for lute

2014-05-07 Thread WALSH STUART
Here is a version of the third section of Matthew's piece (originally written for keyboard, not fretboard), Small Floating Crafts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzjxPKvFf8A Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.

[LUTE] Mathew Leigh Embleton: Small Floating Crafts (Introduction)

2014-05-02 Thread WALSH STUART
Here is an attempt at the first section (of 3) of 'Small Floating Crafts' by Matthew Leigh Embleton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIHUHufMoKI Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off

[LUTE] Re: Stathis Skandalidis Performing 3 Nick Drake songs arranged by Gilbert Isbin

2014-04-23 Thread WALSH STUART
On 23/04/2014 17:57, Gilbert Isbin wrote: Stathis Skandilidis performs wonderfully 3 Nick Drake songs arranged for solo lute by Gilbert Isbin.A [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_0nIQ63JJwfeature=youtu.be These arrangements are downloadable on

[LUTE] how to use Korg OT-120 for Pythagorean tuning?

2014-04-15 Thread WALSH STUART
I only have a vague idea about temperaments and I have a Korg OT-120 and I'd like to try some out. With ET it's just a matter of setting the thing to 440 (or whatever) but with non-ET I don't know what to do. Do you have to define the fundamental note from which the non-ET scale starts? I

[LUTE] Nick Drake song, Three Hours, arranged for lute by Gilbert Isbin

2014-04-09 Thread WALSH STUART
Here is a slightly simplified version of Gilbert's arrangement of a Nick Drake song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRD3_Ife4lM score here: http://lute.musickshandmade.com/collections/view/235 Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is

[LUTE] Old Flemish song arranged for lute by Gilbert Isbin

2014-04-04 Thread WALSH STUART
Het Viel Een Hemels Dauwe (there was falling a heavenly dew)... It's about a lover who offers his love to his beloved. She lets him inside. But soon the watchman announces the morning. I don't know how the song continues but it probably doesn't end well.

[LUTE] L. Lawrence Bispo: Baidouska (lute, 2013)

2014-03-28 Thread WALSH STUART
L.Lawrence Bispo has written Two Suites For Fretboard with both a guitar version and a lute version. http://llawrencebispo.com/ Here is a go at Baidouska from the first Suite (lute version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQJKvqpc3nE Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware

[LUTE] a little piece from the 19th century for seven-string guitar in G tuning

2014-03-26 Thread WALSH STUART
A little Marche in C major - but definitely in some way or other 'from the Romantic era' - by Pietro Pettolotti who wrote for the ordinary six-string guitar as well as the 'Russian' seven-string guitar. These seven-string guitars have the strings very closely spaced so that you can spend as

[LUTE] Re: new works for lute

2014-03-21 Thread WALSH STUART
On 03/03/2014 22:15, David van Ooijen wrote: To those interested There's a 'new' composer for lute: Louis Bispo. He made a website where you can download his scores and read a little about his background: [1]http://llawrencebispo.com/ David Here is my version of one

[LUTE] St Patrick's Day (wire-strung guittar) Pocket Companion 1760

2014-03-16 Thread WALSH STUART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-VC7DN3rE Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] strange little piece in F minor for wire-strung guittar (1763)

2014-03-12 Thread WALSH STUART
F.T. Schuman(n) wrote quite a lot of music for the wire-strung guittar. Lesson XXXV is from Thirty Eight Lessons...for the Guittar (1763) - possibly his first publication for the instrument. Minor keys are rare in English guitar (wire-strung guittar) music and F minor is very rare indeed.

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