[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus

2014-05-23 Thread Thomas Walker
01:20:55 +0200 CC: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu From: davidvanooi...@gmail.com Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus I have a recurring go at making sense of the music from Besard's Novus partus, as it has a tendency to crop up in concert programmes with my duet partner

[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus

2014-05-22 Thread jean-michel Catherinot
+0200 To: [1]mar...@luteshop.co.uk; [2]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu From: [3]jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus Nous appelons celui-ci Nouveau Luth non parce qu'il aurait une forme (construction) nouvelle, mais seulement `a cause du nouvel

[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus

2014-05-22 Thread Rob MacKillop
] Re: Besard's Novus Partus Nous appelons celui-ci Nouveau Luth non parce qu'il aurait une forme (construction) nouvelle, mais seulement `a cause du nouvel accord, qui n'est pas ingrat selon l'opinion de maintes (personnes). C'est nous qui l'avons invente un jour. S'il differe peu

[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus

2014-05-22 Thread Martyn Hodgson
...@hotmail.com; 'Lute List' lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, 21 y of this May 2014, 19:12 Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus Hi Thomas, Besard's nova testudo is a 10 course lute in G with the 2 top strings down an octave, like a theorbo, only a theorbo woudl rather

[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus

2014-05-22 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
  From: jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr   Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus    Nous appelons celui-ci Nouveau Luth non parce qu'il aurait une   forme (construction) nouvelle, mais seulement `a cause du nouvel   accord, qui n'est pas ingrat selon l'opinion de maintes (personnes).   C'est

[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus

2014-05-22 Thread Ron Andrico
, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer, 1966), pp.182-204 RA Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 16:40:25 -0500 To: jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr; mar...@luteshop.co.uk; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu From: twlute...@hotmail.com Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus Thanks kindly, everyone! It's what I

[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus

2014-05-22 Thread David van Ooijen
...@luteshop.co.uk; A A [6]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu A A From: [7]twlute...@hotmail.com A A Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus A A A A Thanks kindly, everyone! It's what I suspected, but the comparative A A rarity of an ordinary lute in reentrant tuning sent my

[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus

2014-05-21 Thread Martin Shepherd
I think Besard explains the Nova Testudo in his preface - can someone help with the text? As I remember it is top two courses down an octave, like the theorbo. M On 21/05/2014 18:10, Thomas Walker wrote: Hello all-- Do any of you have a view(s) on what instrument Besard wanted for

[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus

2014-05-21 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
Hi Thomas, Besard's nova testudo is a 10 course lute in G with the 2 top strings down an octave, like a theorbo, only a theorbo woudl rather be in A and would have more courses (14 most of the time). So, yes it's a lute, in G, with a re-entrant tuning... Best, Jean-Marie --

[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus

2014-05-21 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
Nous appelons celui-ci Nouveau Luth non parce qu'il aurait une forme (construction) nouvelle, mais seulement à cause du nouvel accord, qui n'est pas ingrat selon l'opinion de maintes (personnes). C'est nous qui l'avons inventé un jour. S'il diffère peu en accord du théorbe (comme on

[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus

2014-05-21 Thread Thomas Walker
...@wanadoo.fr Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus Nous appelons celui-ci Nouveau Luth non parce qu'il aurait une forme (construction) nouvelle, mais seulement `a cause du nouvel accord, qui n'est pas ingrat selon l'opinion de maintes (personnes). C'est nous qui l'avons

[LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus.

2012-09-30 Thread Alain Veylit
Hi Chris, There is indeed a published facsimile of the Novus Partus, but I don't have access to it right now. If this helps at all, I transcribed 3 pieces from that book - see [1]http://musickshandmade.com/lute/collections/view/160 . I particularly recommend the Gallinus et