[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Alfonso Marin
List Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin Thank you Eugene! Is there in fact any iconography of baroque opera showing a mandolin player at all? Yes, if you play with the quill you will hear more higher harmonics because the section which hits

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Alfonso Marin
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:38 AM To: EUGENE BRAIG IV; Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin Thank you Eugene! Is there in fact any iconography of baroque opera showing a mandolin player at all? Yes, if you play with the quill you will hear

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Martyn Hodgson
...@ntlworld.com wrote: From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin To: Eugene C. Braig IV brai...@osu.edu Cc: 'Susanne Herre' mandolinens...@web.de, 'Lute List' lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Thursday, 27 May, 2010, 22:21

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Stuart Walsh
, May 17, 2010 6:38 AM To: EUGENE BRAIG IV; Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin Thank you Eugene! Is there in fact any iconography of baroque opera showing a mandolin player at all? Yes, if you play with the quill you will hear more higher harmonics

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Stuart Walsh
[mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Susanne Herre Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:38 AM To: EUGENE BRAIG IV; Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin Thank you Eugene! Is there in fact any iconography of baroque opera showing a mandolin player at all

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:38 AM To: EUGENE BRAIG IV; Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin Thank you Eugene! Is there in fact any iconography of baroque opera showing a mandolin player at all? Yes, if you play with the quill you will hear

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
..Or do you know what he uses as a plectrum? Eugene -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Alfonso Marin Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 4:16 AM To: lutelist Net Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin I

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
___ From: Martyn Hodgson [mailto:hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 4:23 AM To: Eugene C. Braig IV; Stuart Walsh Cc: 'Susanne Herre'; 'Lute List' Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
: lutelist Net Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin Alfonso Marin wrote: Dear all, Talking about baroque mandolins: Last year I played Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha Triumphans with the Venice Baroque Orchestra. There is an aria with a mandolin solo. The concert

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin To: 'Lute List' lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Friday, 28 May, 2010, 15:45 Somewhere there is a catalogue of strings intended for shipment to Vivaldi's famous Ospedale della Piet`a. I don't remember the level

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Eugene C. Braig IV Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 12:21 PM To: 'Martyn Hodgson'; 'Lute List' Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin Greetings Martyn, Of course, more lute-like mandolins comfortably predate wire-strung mandolins historically. I don’t

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-27 Thread Stuart Walsh
-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Susanne Herre Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:38 AM To: EUGENE BRAIG IV; Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin Thank you Eugene! Is there in fact any iconography of baroque opera showing a mandolin player

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin (with link!)

2010-05-27 Thread Stuart Walsh
?? Stuart -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Susanne Herre Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:38 AM To: EUGENE BRAIG IV; Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin Thank you Eugene

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin (with link!)

2010-05-27 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
: Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:23 PM Cc: Eugene C. Braig IV; 'Susanne Herre'; 'Lute List' Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin (with link!) Stuart Walsh wrote: Stuart Walsh wrote: I just can't imagine how you get a loud, full sound playing the instrument fingerstyle when

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-17 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
Of Susanne Herre Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:38 AM To: EUGENE BRAIG IV; Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin Thank you Eugene! Is there in fact any iconography of baroque opera showing a mandolin player at all? Yes, if you play with the quill

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-17 Thread Stuart Walsh
instruments?? Stuart -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Susanne Herre Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:38 AM To: EUGENE BRAIG IV; Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin Thank you Eugene

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-17 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
, Eugene -Original Message- From: Stuart Walsh [mailto:s.wa...@ntlworld.com] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:10 PM To: Eugene C. Braig IV Cc: 'Susanne Herre'; 'Lute List' Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin No, I'm not aware of any iconography showing

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-16 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I agree with Davide. I'm just aware of no baroque-era iconography that implies plectra/quills on 4th-tuned, gut strung mandolins. If it were common in the pit for obligati parts, I would think plectrum use would be at least occasionally evident in the sketchy iconography. I also