Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 8:43 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE]New lute music and ET
result. The author as much as states that ET was an ideal that they kept
striving for, but never really says it was achieved on a level other than
mathematical. In the end he shares wondrous appreciation or t
Harrison's music is sadly an insufferable newage pap of isufferable
duration -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ieHZ5qmJZI&feature=related
RT
- Original Message -
From: "Leonard Williams"
To: "Lute List"
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 8:43 PM
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seems to call for it as determined by the performer (unless explicitly
prescribed by a composer...which certainly isn't often, thus these recurring
debates).
Enjoy,
Eugene
- Original Message -
From: Leonard Williams
Date: Friday, September 25, 2009 8:44 pm
Subject: [LUTE] Re: [L
I just read a book called "Temperament" by Stuart Isacoff. (Liked
the Duffin book much better). The author insists that tuning for fretted
instruments (using the lute as a prime example) was always and had to have
been in ET because the frets go straight across the fingerboard (!!!). How
Hey, you hordes of contemporary lute music fans. Have a look at The
Lute Project at [1]http://www.abc.net.au/classic/lute/default.htm
The Australian ABC broadcasting company commissioned four composers to
write works for lute or theorbo, which were performed live by Tommie
Anders
