[LUTE] Re: Tiorba

2015-06-17 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
By the way you forgot good old Mersenne in your short list ! Jean-Marie -- >Hahahaha ! Good shot Roland ;-) ! > >Jean-Marie, a Brossard's and Campion's (+ a few others') countryman :-) > >-- > >>Re: the theorbo, were Brossard and Campion (7 or 8 on the petit jeu, singl

[LUTE] Re: Tiorba

2015-06-17 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
Hahahaha ! Good shot Roland ;-) ! Jean-Marie, a Brossard's and Campion's (+ a few others') countryman :-) -- >Re: the theorbo, were Brossard and Campion (7 or 8 on the petit jeu, single >strung) "outliers" as well? Maybe just by being French. r > >-Original Message- >From:

[LUTE] Re: Tiorba

2015-06-17 Thread Roland Hayes
Re: the theorbo, were Brossard and Campion (7 or 8 on the petit jeu, single strung) "outliers" as well? Maybe just by being French. r -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Shepherd Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 5:25 PM T

[LUTE] Single-strung lutes

2015-06-17 Thread howard posner
> On Jun 16, 2015, at 11:19 PM, Martyn Hodgson > wrote: > > Dear Howard, > > I think you mean unlikely rather than inconceivable. Of course, you know what I mean better than I do myself, so thanks for clarifying. > Tho' even this is questionable: from the historical evidence it seems quite

[LUTE] Carpe diem

2015-06-17 Thread David Tayler
Carpe diem! A new video of "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may." https://youtu.be/b1jw-5D_rG4 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: Disdiatessaron

2015-06-17 Thread Ralf Mattes
Am Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2015 11:18 CEST, "Tomoko Koide" schrieb: > Thank you Ralf to point out the the letters are claves. You're wellcome. I hope you unerstand that "claves" doesn't neccessarily refer to the keys of an istrument but rather to one system of naming pitches. Medieval/renaissance/b

[LUTE] Re: Tiorba

2015-06-17 Thread jean-michel Catherinot
Dear Chris, I'm not sure of what you mean by conservative: Piccinini is as conservative as his fellow Frescobaldi...I play arciliuto (in piccinini's acceptance) with short nails, no nail on the thumb, as describe by P. : it works, as is "dedillo" ornament, which is very efficient. As

[LUTE] Re: Tiorba

2015-06-17 Thread Martin Shepherd
Absolutely, Chris - there were obviously some very idiosyncratic players in the 17th century, and of course they weren't trying to do anything "historical". For us, in a totally different position, this is a reason to be suspicious of all modern orthodoxies while being mindful of such historic