[LUTE] Re: Jacques Gallot and Francesco da Milano

2011-03-19 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Two of my All time favorites ! Sal Salvaggio --- On Sat, 3/19/11, Martin Shepherd mar...@luteshop.co.uk wrote: From: Martin Shepherd mar...@luteshop.co.uk Subject: [LUTE] Re: Jacques Gallot and Francesco da Milano To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Saturday

[LUTE] Re: C.P.E. Karamazov

2010-12-09 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Thank you howard --- On Sun, 12/5/10, howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com wrote: From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com Subject: [LUTE] Re: C.P.E. Karamazov To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010, 2:04 PM On Dec 5, 2010, at 9:19 AM,

[LUTE] Re: mac

2010-09-19 Thread Sal Salvaggio
thanks for the mac tips ss --- On Sat, 9/18/10, Sal Salvaggio vag...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Sal Salvaggio vag...@yahoo.com Subject: [LUTE] mac To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Saturday, September 18, 2010, 4:11 PM Anyone out there who might be a fronimo user

[LUTE] mac

2010-09-18 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Anyone out there who might be a fronimo user know of a mac program that reads fronimo files - just got a mac = any suggestions -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: incompatibility gardening/lute playing?

2010-06-29 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Did you try a good pair of work gloves? SS --- On Tue, 6/29/10, Anthony Hind agno3ph...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Anthony Hind agno3ph...@yahoo.com Subject: [LUTE] incompatibility gardening/lute playing? To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 5:09 AM

[LUTE] Re: viol and theorbo

2009-07-15 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Hille Perl and Lee Santana recenty put out a duo cd of music for viol and lute/theorbo etc. --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Eleanor Smith s0347...@sms.ed.ac.uk wrote: From: Eleanor Smith s0347...@sms.ed.ac.uk Subject: [LUTE] Re: viol and theorbo To: David van Ooijen

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi RV 588

2009-06-18 Thread Sal Salvaggio
This is the Noah's Ark one. I would probably use the Arch lute - and probably be bull whipped by purists in the process - SS --- On Thu, 6/18/09, David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com wrote: From: David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com Subject: [LUTE] Vivaldi RV 588

[LUTE] Off Topic Save La Petite Bande

2009-02-06 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Off TOpic - thought I'd pass this on SS La Petite Bande , Sigiswald Kuijkens baroque orchestra, is being threatened in its existence from 2010 ! The 'independent' commission that has to advise and 'assist' the flemish culture minister Bert Anciaux in his decisions concerning the

[LUTE] Re: Jean-Baptiste Besard

2009-01-31 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Hello Eduard I studied the pieces in the CNRS edition many years ago and have revisited them recently. Nice upper range writing. Good for your left hand technique and knowledge of the fretboard. Sal Salvaggio [1]www.salvaggio.50megs.com --- On Sat, 1/31/09, E. Agullo

[LUTE] Re: baroque lute pitch

2007-12-08 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Hi Nigel I'm usually lower on my 13 course hoffman rider copy. SS --- Nigel Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What pitch do people tune their baroque lutes to? Baroque lutes tend to be anywhere between 68-75 cm, which is a wide range. Does everyone use a' 415 or higher or lower? Nigel

[LUTE] Re: Transitional Tunings

2007-08-26 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Matthew Spring's book The History of the Lute in Britain has most of the info you will need on transitional tunings.Great book , by the way S.Salvaggio --- David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Luters, I'm trying to find out more about transitional tunings for the 10- course. I see

[LUTE] Pat O'brien's email

2007-08-16 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Does anyone out there have Pat O'brien's email Please reply privately Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links.

[LUTE] Re: Wedding gig

2007-08-06 Thread Sal Salvaggio
How abot Now, oh now her knees must part as the recessional- I think Dowland wrote that SS --- Louis Aull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To all, Boy does this bring back memories. Good friends in the Baha'i faith had me play/sing at their wedding held in their front yard. Right in the middle

[LUTE] Re: Early Baroque basso continuo rules

2007-07-31 Thread Sal Salvaggio
That's the ticket. Way to go Malcolm! SS --- Malcolm Toms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: an interesting site about Partimenti (Instructional basses) http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/music/gjerdingen/partimenti/index.htm

[LUTE] Re: Strawinsky, Bream and a Lute

2007-06-14 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Bream live on the lute in the 1960's in concert in Europe audio only http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DsZj8N9cA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6LJlfGR18Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6LJlfGR18Y S.Salvaggio

[LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question

2007-05-02 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Hey, how come veteran rocker and John Dowland specialist Sting doesn't play with his pinkee planted? SS --- Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come gather round and check out Bob Dylan's guitar playing for a nice medieval lute plectrum technique. Alain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw

[LUTE] Re: food drink songs?

2007-04-28 Thread Sal Salvaggio
I will give my love an apple folk song arrangement by Benjamin Britten There are also some great 16th cent. tobacco songs if you are into that SS --- LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for songs about food and drink. Both lute songs and continuo songs are welcome, even

[LUTE] Re: cello\lute duo

2007-03-12 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Bach 2 part inventions will keep you busy! - 3 part ones if you can cut the upper two parts.Some Scarlatti sonatas work well too. SS --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, my friend plays the baroque cello, and we want to play some music together. Does anyone know where to start looking for duo

[LUTE] cittern strings

2007-02-21 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Hi Anyone know who supplies wire renaissance cittern strings in the US. Got a 4 course - 44cm? S Salvaggio Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta.

[LUTE] Re: Baroque Lute Discography Help Requested.

2007-02-03 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Thought I'd add these: Julian Bream Edition, Vol.5 Concertos Sonatas for Lute works by Vivaldi, Handel + Kohaut Julian Bream Edition, Vol. 20 J.S.Bach - Lute Suites Trio Sonatas. SS Never Miss an

[LUTE] Re: list of great performers

2006-10-19 Thread Sal Salvaggio
How about Julian Bream? SS --- Roland Hogman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget Eugen Muller-Dombois Roland Hogman 2006-10-19 kl. 09.44 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I would add the Fathers of modern lute playing Walter Gerwig and Michael Sch=C3=A4ffer. Best

[LUTE] Re: Is there a non-spruce topwood in your past/present/future lute?

2006-10-14 Thread Sal Salvaggio
I had a 13 course baroque 1730's Hoffman copy with sitka spruce built for me in 1980 by Dan Hachez. The top is very thin and has wonderful tone and projection.Probably my best instrument.One of the 1st lightly built lutes I've owned. I have played spruce classical guitars for years and

[LUTE] Re: The last word goes to Sting

2006-10-09 Thread Sal Salvaggio
I thinkif my memory serves me correctly- that later in life - Dowland did play thumb out. But how about Paul O'dette playing theorbo and baroque lute thumb under?(this is based on second hand sightings) although I did see him years back play theorbo thumb under. You know, after listening to

[LUTE] Sting pool

2006-10-09 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Fellow lutenetters and potential gambling buddies I think we should start a lute cd pool to see which lute cd has sold the most copies in the last 6 months..how's about 5 bucks a pop? ---anybody live in Nevada - I think we can run it from there.odds anyone? (I'd love to win

[LUTE] Re: Sting pool-A list and then some

2006-10-09 Thread Sal Salvaggio
These are the numbers for yahoo search results for Dowland +__ 194,000 for dowland Sting 16,500 for dowland o'dette 13,700 for dowland bream 10,500 for dowland deller (had to include this) 1,560 for dowland Hopkinson These are the numbers for yahoo search results for lute+__

[LUTE] Re: A few thoughts...

2006-09-26 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Bravo Richard! My opinion on the whole Sting thing is...well... ..maybe it will produce more work for lute playersa little pop exposure can't hurt! The ship has come in. SS --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Luters, I find it interesting that some people get so ruffled at the idea

[LUTE] Re: Hear Sting Dowland CD at amazon.de

2006-09-24 Thread Sal Salvaggio
--- Thomas Schall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking about playing with modern orchestras: If you should ever be asked to do so: Leave it! I am playing these eve with a modern orchestra and would say: It doesn't make any sense. What has an archlute to do in an ensemble of 8 modern

[LUTE] Festival

2006-09-23 Thread Sal Salvaggio
For those of you in the New York Area The Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New Youk will present it's Annual Fall Festival in Oneonta, New York next weekend, Sept 30 + October 1. Featured performer will be Jerry Willard playing the lute, baroque guitar, 19th century guitar and modern guitar go

[LUTE] Re: OT: list of visual artists also active as professional or competent amateur musicians/composers

2006-09-01 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Django Reinhardt! --- bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: many of the medical people i've known in my life have also been involved in the arts in someway. musicians who paint (on-going list:) - tony bennet - frank sinatra an actor but lee marvin was a wonderful painter. ---

[LUTE] Re: Francesco da Milano

2006-08-10 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Playing ALBERT DE RIPPE --- Caroline Usher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francesco's birthday is coming up - Aug. 18. What will you be doing? Caroline Caroline Usher DCMB Administrative Coordinator 613-8155, Room B343 LSRC Mailing address: Box

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi D-major concerto

2006-06-11 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Hi A dminor 11 or 13th course works - so does a G lute of some sort- I've played it on a G lute and it works well - a lot of careful fingering on the G lute has to be done though - some say it was written for a visiting german lutenist who happened to play the Dm lute - good heavens...could

[LUTE] Re: sting's bach

2006-05-26 Thread Sal Salvaggio
I wonder if he works out? - sensitive playing though! SS --- Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:13 AM 5/26/2006, Paul Pleijsier wrote: How about Sting's Bach? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAQRMrr4zpc PP Opting for Sting's choice in duds would not do any favors

[LUTE] Re: Flight Case Update

2006-02-23 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Has anyone ever built a crate for their lute + case. I'm thinking about building one out of 1/4 inch plywood with foam on the inside to hold the instrument snug. Maybe put wheels on it? Some luthiers even us cardboard boxes with styrofoam spaghetti stuff for padding to ship new instruments. SS

[LUTE] Re: A different 6 course question

2006-02-21 Thread Sal Salvaggio
There is, I believe, a prebyter (sp?) spacing - of some sort that may be wider SS __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Baroque guitar case

2006-02-17 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Kingham Case Co. - London(UK) Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com The information transmitted is intended for recipient or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination

[LUTE] Re: web addresses in lute mail

2006-02-09 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Hi Wayne Thanks for the heads up on that - I'll take my signature file off my postings - what a wierd thing to happen - sorry about the mishap.Must be some kind of bizarre cyber conspiracy - eegadds! SS __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

[LUTE] Re: STING PLAYS AN ARCHLUTE

2006-02-09 Thread Sal Salvaggio
I wonder if he was playing on gut, nylon or nylgut? SS __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] STING PLAYS AN ARCHLUTE

2006-02-08 Thread Sal Salvaggio
I was browsing the Grammy site + clicked on 'Stars fete James Taylor video clip - tribute to JT and lo and behold - Sting is singing to his - ARCHLUTE! here's the site http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/48th_Annual/ Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com The

[LUTE] Re: STING PLAYS AN ARCHLUTE

2006-02-08 Thread Sal Salvaggio
I'd love to see him play a tromba marina! SS Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com The information transmitted is intended for recipient or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged material. Any review,

[LUTE] concert announcement

2006-01-25 Thread Sal Salvaggio
are in the area - stop by! Sal Salvaggio Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com The information transmitted is intended for recipient or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary

[LUTE] Finale tab question

2005-11-13 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Hi I'm using Finale and was wondering if anyone out there knows how to change the auto tab function from numbers to letters for french tab style - I seemed to have done it before - but I forgot what I did - SS Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com

[LUTE] Re: Strings and necks

2005-10-29 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Hi I had a 10 course lute done up with a wider spacing -based on a historical instrument - presybter(sp?) spacing or something like that/works great - the bridge is wider than my 13 course Hoffman copy!!! So I gotta do a bit of prac. when I switch instruments. SS Salvatore Salvaggio

[LUTE] Re: continuo

2005-10-08 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Hi One thing I did years ago, prior to North's book and other continuo tutors being published was to take madrigal collections with keyboard reductions and read the bottom 3 or 4 parts or just read them from a choral score, then go back and take just the bass line and do an on site

[LUTE] Re: Guitar and lute + theory

2005-08-30 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Jim Concerning Music Theory - study basso continuo on your instrumeni - chord inversions and such - Nigel North has a great book on the subject. Sal Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com Start your day

Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-04 Thread Sal Salvaggio
'THE ZONK OF THE LUTE IS OUT OFA' TUNA HALFA DA TIMEA' SORRY - I COULDN'T HELP IT ss Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard.

Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-03 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Hi All There is a fantastic biography by Thomas F. Heck entitled Mauro Giuliani Virtuoso Guitarist and Composer pub. by Editions Orphee 1995 that chronicles the guitarist's life, the guitar in Italy and it's place in the concert life of Vienna. A fascinating must read for those interested in

Re: Fw: Byrd

2005-08-02 Thread Sal Salvaggio
How 'bout this name for a vihuela Quartet EL MAESTROS SS Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To get on or off this

Re: Fw: Byrd

2005-08-02 Thread Sal Salvaggio
How 'bout a Spanish translation of: We would love to play the lute but the Inquisitors won't let us quartet. Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

Re: Attributions (was Byrd, and notation, and a few other things)

2005-07-26 Thread Sal Salvaggio
This debate is turning into a soap opera Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see

Re: Historical pitch (was lute notation)

2005-07-26 Thread Sal Salvaggio
What was the low pitch in Bach's Germany - 392? SS Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs To get on or off this list

Re: Byrd

2005-07-24 Thread Sal Salvaggio
A bit on Treble clef vs. tab and other ramblings- When I started to play the renaissance lute back in the winter of'75, I worked from keyboard transcriptions. I didn't read tab at the time. I saw the lines in this richly contrapuntal music and used my skills at fingering to come up with

Re: Byrd + when the fishin's bad

2005-07-24 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Chris wrote: And as a very practical matter, if you're concerned about being taken seriously as a musician, you are going to get handed music in modern notation And oh - how true this is - in my career as a professional player the ability to read all the clefs has helped get the gigs. The most

Re: Byrd

2005-07-23 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Arthur Ness - A helpful, articulate and scholarly member of our list - a nice fellow as well!!! Salvatore Salvaggio http://www.Salvaggio.50megs.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Re: Byrd

2005-07-23 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Luters, I am presently working on a Pavan by Byrd set by Francis Cutting for a program of Elizabethan Ballads and Dances.I put the piece in with a group of Cutting pieces. The Cutting style is evident in his reworking or recomposition of this work. I consider it as original in the way Mr.

Re: Galilei

2005-05-06 Thread Sal Salvaggio
to demonstrate how to do this. I love this manuscript because it heavily leans in the direction of the broken style of variation. Sal Salvaggio __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http

lecture recital

2005-04-17 Thread Sal Salvaggio
on the lute. Hope to see you there Sal Salvaggio www.Salvaggio.50megs.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides! http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide To get on or off this list see list information at http

Re: lute outreach

2005-04-11 Thread Sal Salvaggio
I'm doing a little lecture recital for the New Jersey Classical Guitar and Mandolin Society Thursday, April 21 in Hoboken - Kapsberger, Sanz and Dowland,,,should be fun! Sal Salvaggio - __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our

Re: Repertoire, was: memorization

2005-03-31 Thread Sal Salvaggio
I take it you do not care for Henze's music. Great stuff really - especially when you read thru some of it. Sort of breaks out of the mold of the spanish guitar music stuff - difficult to play - takes concentration and several hearings to appreciate. Gesualdo probably had that same problem.

Re: mesmerization

2005-03-31 Thread Sal Salvaggio
MT wrote Renaissance music is not Romantic music (in the context of the music history definition of the word) -the players role is often to detach one's ego from the performance and let the music speak for itself. Oh- what treatise did you find the detached ego stuff from - seems to me that your

Re: Continuo

2005-03-08 Thread Sal Salvaggio
built into it from the 2nd string down to the 6th I believe - so coming from the E guitar it might be kind of cool just a thought. Sal Salvaggio www.salvaggio.50megs.com __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective

Jacob Polak

2004-12-05 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Does anyone know if Jacob Polak was Jewish? SS __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: A lute, Hopkinson Smith

2004-11-29 Thread Sal Salvaggio
The actual lute Hoppy played on his recent Dowland tour was an eight course lute built in 2002 by Joel Van Lennup. I heard him play in Troy NY a few weeks ago and also played the instrument - which is magnificent, by the way - But I don't know what instrument is pictured in the flyer = his 8 c.

Re: Dawn Culbertson

2004-11-28 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Ed, It is sad to hear of Dawn's passing. I met her at a LSA seminar many years ago. She was enthusiastic about the lute and it's music. A devoted advocate for our beloved instrument. She will be missed. Sal Salvaggio __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet

Re: I am sorry...

2004-11-05 Thread Sal Salvaggio
With God On Our Side Bob Dylan Album:The Times They Are A-Changin' LYRICS: Oh, my name it ain't nothin', my age it means less The country I come from is called the Midwest It's taught and brought up there, the laws to abide And that the land that I live in has God on its side. Oh, the history

Concert in Upstate NY this weekend

2004-10-13 Thread Sal Salvaggio
On Saturday, October 16th at 7;30 pm at the Temple Beth El , 83 Chestnut St. in Oneonta, NY David Raphaelson and Salvatore Salvaggio will present a joint recital of solos and duets by Lawes, Carulli, Scarlatti, Sanz, Vivaldi, Foden and others on parlour guitar, baroque guitar, lute and modern

Upstate NY Concert time change to 7:30pm

2004-07-23 Thread Sal Salvaggio
The Windfall Dutch Barn, Salt Springville, NY will present A Potpourri of 17th 19th Century Solos and Duets on Wednesday, July 28 at 7:30. The performers are Mary Ann Ross- Soprano, David Raphaelson -baritone, 19th century modern guitars and Salvatore Salvaggio -lute, baroque

Announcement: Concert in Upstate NY

2004-07-15 Thread Sal Salvaggio
The Windfall Dutch Barn, Salt Springville, NY will present A Potpourri of 17th 19th Century Solos and Duets on Wednesday, July 28 at 8 pm. The performers are Mary Ann Ross- Soprano, David Raphaelson -baritone, 19th century modern guitars and Salvatore Salvaggio -lute, baroque

A BIT OFF TOPIC BUT SOMEWHAT PRESIDENTIAL

2004-02-14 Thread Sal Salvaggio
I thought this might be of interest.. From the Charlotte Observer - Jan 18 - 2004 Jim Morrill If Bill Clinton's saxophone was a symbol of exuberance, then Kerry's mid-life fascination with mastering the classical guitar suggests a more subdued inner nature ... Listening to Kerry play

Bulk?

2003-12-07 Thread Sal Salvaggio
Any one know why my lutelist stuff is winding up in my bulk mail folder on Yahoo? Sal __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/

19th cent string question+ nylgut

2003-11-16 Thread Sal Salvaggio
and was wondering if anyone has tried nylgut on 19th cent. guitars. I would do regular gut but I've come to enjoy the durability/predictable nature of nylgut on my baroque guitar, they have a brighter quality. - and also, any suggestions on wound/unwound basses? Sal Salvaggio

Concert announcement

2003-10-10 Thread Sal Salvaggio
To those in the Philadelphia Area Salvatore Salvaggio Lute and Baroque Guitar French Baroque Suites by Grenerin, Campion + De Visee/ Fantasias, Ayres and Dances for lute by da Milano, Dowland and others Date + time: Sunday, Oct. 12, 2003 3 pm Location: Settlement Music School Mary