[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-23 Thread Richard York
- From: Philip Gruar [[1]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 September 2008 21:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks - Original Message - From: [3]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NSP group" [4] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 1:0

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-23 Thread Gibbons, John
. What did they mean? Does anyone know, or was it ambiguous then? John -Original Message- From: Philip Gruar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 September 2008 21:33 To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks - Original Message - From

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-23 Thread Christopher.Birch
"pegment sans appui" I'm not familiar with the term. Is this what purists might call a "dégringolement"? c To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-22 Thread Richard Hensold
The whole recent choyting "debate" has mostly reinforced my opinion that it's better to try to teach people how to think musically than to answer specific questions about what is correct or incorrect... No, indeed we don't know what Peacock's trill signs meant, and the vagueness tha

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-22 Thread Gibbons, John
But there was at least one decent engraver in Newcastle! And he liked pipe music too. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 September 2008 11:56 To: NSP group Subject: [NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks On 22 Sep 2008

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-22 Thread Gibbons, John
ember 2008 13:01 To: NSP group Subject: [NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks Thanks, both Julia & Chris. Pretty much like lots of C18/19 marks on music then! And in the case of a run of semi-quavers on the nsp I suppose it also has the possibility of "do nothi

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-22 Thread Julia . Say
On 22 Sep 2008, Richard York wrote: > in the case >of a run of semi-quavers on the nsp I suppose it also has the >possibility of "do nothing extra" ? Just getting them sounding as they should (peas in a pod), is quite sufficient challenge for most of us, I think. Otherwise you cou

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-22 Thread Richard York
Thanks, both Julia & Chris. Pretty much like lots of C18/19 marks on music then! And in the case of a run of semi-quavers on the nsp I suppose it also has the possibility of "do nothing extra" ? Best wishes, Richard. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Sep 2008, Ormston, Chris wro

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-22 Thread Julia . Say
On 22 Sep 2008, Ormston, Chris wrote: > We don't really know what Peacock meant by the trill marks. It's even > been suggested that Mr Wright, the publisher, was wholly responsible > for the transcriptions, and, not being a piper, gave it his best shot. To Chris' comments I'd just like to add t

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-22 Thread Ormston, Chris
Richard, We don't really know what Peacock meant by the trill marks. It's even been suggested that Mr Wright, the publisher, was wholly responsible for the transcriptions, and, not being a piper, gave it his best shot. We don't know for certain that Peacock was musically literate (correct me i