[LUTE] Re: Lute sound / split sound

2008-10-02 Thread thomas schall
I've read it's the 20th century and german version of what we know as style brisé (just in case nobody else has already mentioned). Thomas - Original Message - From: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:58

[LUTE] Temperament wondering...

2008-10-02 Thread Omer katzir
i guess any one already have his favorite, and i want to discover my own... sssoo Any recommendation? i want it for my nice little 7c...but i might try something new with my guitar :-D thank you again Omer To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Temperament wondering...

2008-10-02 Thread Andrew Gibbs
Hello Omer I've been tackling this issue myself recently. I started by trying some historical instructions for fret placement (found on the The Lute Society of America Fret Placement Spreadsheet): http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/download/index.html I found, after a lot of trial and error, that

[LUTE] Dowland know-how

2008-10-02 Thread dc
I suppose this question has already been asked umpteen times, but here goes again: do we know how the ow in Dowland's name was pronounced? As in know or as in how? Thanks, Dennis To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Lute sound / split sound

2008-10-02 Thread Mathias Rösel
And spit-clang is when you got too much oomph to it, no? M. David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I thought Spaetklang was when you can't keep the tempo. d At 02:08 AM 9/30/2008, you wrote: And Splatklang is when you don't quite manage to play that difficult chord

[LUTE] Re: Lute sound / split sound

2008-10-02 Thread Mathias Rösel
Lemme try to clarify this. Split sound is when the sounds of different ensemble members do not blend, that's all. I think we can all agree by and large with the following: The medieval hofkapelle at the Burgundian court consisted of single musicians who would do their best to get heard distinctly

[LUTE] Re: Tree Edition

2008-10-02 Thread Henry Villca
Dear Gernot, I would suggest for another edition, why?? simply because some months ago I was in Lubeck for a concert and while I was there I called them for some music and they were just rude. Fortunatelly we have nice people such as Minkof or S.P.E.S and many

[LUTE] Re: Lute sound / split sound

2008-10-02 Thread Bruno Correia
Thanks Mathias, This subject is very interesting and you explained it very well. 2008/10/2 Mathias Roesel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lemme try to clarify this. Split sound is when the sounds of different ensemble members do not blend, that's all. I think we can all agree by

[LUTE] Re: Lute sound/split sound

2008-10-02 Thread Mathias Rösel
howard posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: The medieval hofkapelle at the Burgundian court consisted of single musicians who would do their best to get heard distinctly (the lute being played with quills therefore). That's split sound (spaltklang). But there's no evidence of such a sound

[LUTE] Re: Wound strings equivalent

2008-10-02 Thread Charles Browne
Bruno Fournier wrote: Does anyone know the equivalent of the following woundPyramid strings but in SAVAREZ instead? 1007 1008 1009 1011 1015 1021 1023 1025 1027 I have ordered these strings from Pyramid, but they have not replied to me.

[LUTE] Re: New Paul O'Dette CD

2008-10-02 Thread Arthur Ness
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[LUTE] Re: Dowland know-how

2008-10-02 Thread Anthony Hind
Dennis, and Jurek Perhaps Diana Poulton assumed this from the play on Dowland/Dolens, Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (and isn't that the vowel sound in her own name?). However, don't forget that the diphthongs at the time of Dowland were undergoing the process often called the Great Vowel

[LUTE] Re: Tree Edition

2008-10-02 Thread Nancy Carlin
I really like his John Johnson edition. It's a very nice collection of music, with really good notes. Nancy Carlin At 01:58 PM 10/2/2008, Edward Martin wrote: I second that statement, Guy. I ran the bookstore this past summer at the LSA seminar, and I had to deal with Mr.

[LUTE] Re: Lute sound/split sound

2008-10-02 Thread howard posner
Maybe we're talking nonsense because we haven't defined our terms. Or maybe you assume a clear dichotomy between blending and not blending; the world is a more complicated place than that. Indeed, I think the whole notion of a single sound ideal for all of Europe for a century or more is

[LUTE] Re: Lute sound / split sound

2008-10-02 Thread Mathias Rösel
Which would explain why renaissance lutenists' propensity of playing near the rose, and the shift from 1600 onward to the bridge. Was there really a shift? I seem to recall instructions on where to plant you little finger, rather than where to actually play the strings, so perhaps it

[LUTE] Re: Lute sound/split sound

2008-10-02 Thread Mathias Rösel
howard posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Maybe we're talking nonsense because we haven't defined our terms. Or maybe you assume a clear dichotomy between blending and not blending; the world is a more complicated place than that. I'm too simple a listener, probably. IMHO it's a dichotomy,