[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread David van Ooijen
Clarity above clutter is a common factor in many postings. Personal preferences - grid rhythm signs versus minimal use of rhythm signs, landscape versus portrait, where to place measure numbers - are not interesting in itself, but if there are enough people sending in their preferences some sort

[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines, impossible!

2008-12-09 Thread Spring, aus dem, Rainer
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:19 AM To: Lute Net Subject: [LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines, impossible! If you provide tablature in electronic format you completely loose control. true. Who needs

[LUTE] Tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread Stewart McCoy
Dear Tom, Alain Veylit's Django software will convert MIDI files to tablature automatically. Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 December 2008 20:16 To: List LUTELIST; howard posner Subject: [LUTE] Re: tablature

[LUTE] Re: Tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread Francesco Tribioli
Dear Tom, indeed it is built into Fronimo. Just choose MIDI Files as the file format into the standard Fronimo file open dialog box. In other words, there is not a specific import command but the import is done by opening the MIDI file. Best wishes, Francesco -Original Message-

[LUTE] lute pictures

2008-12-09 Thread tom
Hello all, I am looking for some pictures of the 11c lute by Weigert located in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (MIR 898). Would someone like to share their museum snapshots? Thanks, Tom. To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread demery
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008, David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Clarity above clutter is a common factor in many postings. agreed, clutter is bad for legibility. Grids can be good, when the music has a regular pulse that is shown clearly. Sparse flags can get me lost, the occaisional redundant

[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread Lex van Sante
@Betsy Lahaussois: Intel macs can run windows very well via Boot Camp or Parallels or some other virtualisation tool. If you use Boot Camp (free with OSX leopard) you will only need a Legal copy of Windows XP with an integrated SP2 or later. Vista will run fine as well. How to do that is

[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread David Tayler
I think everyone has their faves, just like the original copyists. Here's a few themes: 1. Landscape vs portrait-- Both existed historically, some formats work better for some music. But see below 2. Diplomatic facsimile--hints at, or strongly resembles the original. A very good choice for many

[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread howard posner
On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Lex van Sante wrote: However you should note that one cannot run Windows on a PPC- Mac. I do it all the time using Virtual PC. Not exactly a perfect option... -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Catterino Cavos

2008-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
Catterino Cavos was a Venetian composer who settled in St. Petersburg in the 1790's. Together with a poet prince Shakhovskoy he wrote a vaudeville on Ukrainian themes called Cossack-Poet, in 1812. It became hugely popular and was staged for some 40 years. Here's a mazurka from it-

[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread Lex van Sante
@ Howard Posner: Probably off topic: Sorry! You mean you have actually been able to use Fronimo with Virtual PC? That is no mean feat! I've tried using it but it was all very slow, unstable, not to mention costly. I was fortunate that my Apple dealer at the time offered me a chance to test

[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
I ran Stringwalker, Django and Fronimo on VPC until about 3 years ago. No difficulties, aside from horrendous echo in midi playback. I now keep both a Mac and a PC, for a different set of reasons. RT - Original Message - From: Lex van Sante [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute mailing list

[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread howard posner
On Dec 9, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Lex van Sante wrote: You mean you have actually been able to use Fronimo with Virtual PC? I've never tried to use Fronimo. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread Sean Smith
Me too for the last 5(?) years and the only program I run on it is Fronimo which works mostly fine. (ok, and Firefox to download the newest Fronimo 3 from time to time ;^) My only slowdown is playing the midi files. I have to save them as midi files, send them to the shared folder and then

[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread demery
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008, howard posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Lex van Sante wrote: However you should note that one cannot run Windows on a PPC- Mac. how about mac OS on a pentium with a partition for windoz? Yes, it obliges purchase of pentium, which i supose was

[LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines

2008-12-09 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Am 9 Dec 2008 um 14:47 hat David Tayler geschrieben: 7. All editions should be free. We need more lute players. Thanks to all who make the music available. Yes, and all lessons likewise. And all the concerts, we need more listeners, you see. After all the applause is the bread of the