[VIHUELA] Re: Landi - Quando Rinaldo

2014-09-16 Thread Arto Wikla
Monica, well here is my way, not the only possible, naturally. ;- on the first line in the second bar - are the figures over the second D 5-6? Yes. And I'd play 5-b6. (and also the last chord if 1st bar G-minor. on the first line in the third bar the second 7-6 - should the 6 be sharp

[VIHUELA] de Visee arr of Corelli - version to b-guitar?

2012-11-16 Thread Arto Wikla
and theorbo there are lots of Lully, and here and there some pieces also by other great names of those times. Best, Arto On 16/11/12 22:02, Arto Wikla wrote: Dear lutenists of every type and baroque guitarists, I find it quite interesting that monsieur de Visee made some arrangements

[VIHUELA] de Visee Chaconne in a minor to the guitar?

2012-11-10 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear flat back lutenists, My try on de Visee's Chaconne in A minor is - as I told - is in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqHHPeLMNYUfeature=youtu.be http://vimeo.com/53172045 As I said, there is the original(?) theorbo version of this d-minor lute version, but I have a strong memory

[VIHUELA] Re: de Visee by baroque lute

2012-10-28 Thread Arto Wikla
, Arto Wikla [1]wi...@cs.helsinki.fi wrote: Perhaps someone in the main lute list and in the vihuela list (mainly baroque guitar list) could be interested in de Visee stuff by baroque lute? I tried to play some: Robert de Visee: Pastoralle in F# minor [2]http

[VIHUELA] Re: G chord on Baroque Guitar

2012-09-13 Thread Arto Wikla
Great project and very beautiful video! Thanks Bud! Arto On 13/09/12 18:29, bud roach wrote: Hello Friends- On this issue I do have something to contribute- a very specific example from the alfabeto repertoire (along with some shameless self-promotion!) In preparation

[VIHUELA] Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]

2011-12-11 Thread wikla
Well, Oliver Strunk writes chitarrino. As far as I know, chitarrino, 4 course renaissance guitar, was not at all unknown in Italy in times of Agazzari... But I have never heard about chitarrina, but of course that does not exclude its existence... ;-) best regards, Arto On Sun, 11 Dec 2011

[VIHUELA] Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]

2011-12-11 Thread wikla
I am afraid that we have opened the Pandora's box ... ;-) Arto On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:55:52 -, Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: A pandora is a lute shaped wire-strung instrument. It is one of the instruments which forms part of the broken consort for which Morley et al

[VIHUELA] Re: Capona?

2011-12-10 Thread wikla
://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/agazzari.html All the best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[VIHUELA] Strumming lute

2011-09-26 Thread wikla
Dear flat-back lutenists, as I told earlier, also we fat-back lutenists strum our instrument every now and then. My example of today is a nice piece - with politically not so correct name,though, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8q45d1wDww Best, Arto To get on or off this list see list

[VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar culture and habits?

2011-05-12 Thread wikla
Dear Martyn, Well, my comment was not about contents but style of writing... And it really was not so very serious... These conversations sometimes actually are quite entertaining, too. All the best, Arto On 12/05/11 11:24, Martyn Hodgson wrote: But my dear Arto - there really

[VIHUELA] Re: James Tyler (RIP)

2010-11-26 Thread wikla
: He told me that he found it in the attic of the oldest house of the course center... And the piece just happened to be Preludio detta la Wikla... You can find his original handwriting - and also a really good piece to theorbo! - in http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Tiorba/PreludioW.pdf

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-21 Thread wikla
Thanks to everyone for introducing b-guitar to a theorbist! While thinking of b-guitar I had to tube some strumming on b-lute, a Sarabande by Mercure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTZKpXIx1Dg Arto To get on or off this list see list information at

[VIHUELA] Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-20 Thread wikla
Dear flat-back lutenists, is there any repertoire/composer of baroque guitar that/who without any modern disagreement definitely used the double re-entrant tuning - the 5th and 4th having only in the upper octaves? De Visee perhaps? To a theorbist with two top strings lowered an octave that

[VIHUELA] Re: Castaldi

2010-09-04 Thread wikla
--- On Fri, 3/9/10, wikla wi...@cs.helsinki.fi wrote: From: wikla wi...@cs.helsinki.fi Subject: [LUTE] Re: Castaldi To: l...@cs.dartmouth.edu Cc: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Friday, 3 September, 2010, 21:28 Thanks for your thanks Ron! There in the same

[VIHUELA] Re: stringing and performance

2010-09-02 Thread wikla
Dear baroque guitarists, I just am so happy that the life to us, lutenists, is so much simpler than it seems to be to you! Not too much trouble with the bourdons and octaves. ;-) And we have more or less the basses there, too. Happy playing and strumming! :) Arto To get on or off this

[VIHUELA] Private Musicke and Kozuna (was: Foscarini on Radio 3)

2010-08-27 Thread wikla
Interesting! I just happened to hear the Private Musicke and Kozuna just before the talks here. They happened to have the opening concert here in the Helsinki Festival: Love Madrigals of the 17th century. Great! Clearly the first time early music gets that much attention in this festival. I

[VIHUELA] de Visee with basses

2010-05-28 Thread wikla
Dear flat back lutenists, especially baroque guitarists, I've done some de Visee tubings by Théorbe de pieces that perhaps might interest also baroque guitarists? In any case de Visee made (or had made?) his guitar pieces to theorbo and his theorbo pieces to guitar. So the following theorbo

[VIHUELA] Re: a couple of pieces by Logy

2009-01-10 Thread wikla
On 1/11/2009, Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: I've put a couple of little pieces in A minor by Graf Logy ...or Losy ..or whatever his name is: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AlFRlm97MTIfeature=channel_page Why so many videos in the tube are without the head of the player? Makes

[VIHUELA] Re: Hi All

2008-12-12 Thread Arto Wikla
gary digman wrote: There may be a reason to be concerned about whether one is tuned in E, G or A. Dissonances become more dissonant as pitch is lowered. This might noticeably change the texture of the music. This is interesting! Why dissonances would become more dissonant as pitch is

[VIHUELA] Re: Hi All

2008-12-12 Thread Arto Wikla
This is interesting! Why dissonances would become more dissonant as pitch is lowered? Is it an opinion or a physical fact? Speaking as a piano tuner, I can say it's a physical fact on a piano. Much less so on a harpsichord, and undoubtedly much less so on a vihuela also. Piano strings are

[VIHUELA] Re: Preludes, Cadences and Composition for Guitar

2008-12-07 Thread Arto Wikla
Roman Turovsky wrote: I've read through that PDF, and it contains quite a few Ukrainian items, some of them in really peculiar versions. For example- #22 is really based on http://www.torban.org/pisni/images/hryts1.pdf http://www.torban.org/pisni/images/hryts1.mid

[VIHUELA] Re: strumming near the bridge

2008-05-31 Thread wikla
On 5/31/2008, Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Much earlier Italian sources, e.g Millioni indicate that you should strum between the rose and the neck. .. You should play with the right hand, with three or four fingers, having them separate from one another, so as to render the music

[VIHUELA] Re: Chi passa Boogie

2008-04-12 Thread wikla
Dear Eugene and the Lists, On 4/11/2008, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: At 05:25 AM 4/11/2008, Arto Wikla wrote: The mandora here means the tiny soprano lute, perhaps it should be called mandolino? Depends, but in this case, it definitely looks like the paradigm that is commonly accepted

[VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-18 Thread wikla
On 1/18/2008, Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In things like the Cavalieri the singer probably accompanied himself on stage, rather than the guitar being part of the continuo group. I suppose the on-stage playing was most often played by the continuo group. There are several examples

[VIHUELA] Re: vihuela's black swan

2007-06-19 Thread wikla
I don't really see any black swan issues here. An instrument is what its contemporary builders and players named it. I don't see nearly as much value in categorizing instrument types into biological-like families as some. Of course, all these things are related and borrow inspiration from

[VIHUELA] Re: you tube debut

2007-05-03 Thread Arto Wikla
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 19:03, bill kilpatrick wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFyvrCMmt8k Nice! Very nice! Thanks Bill. Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[VIHUELA] Lute in 70's Was: hmm

2006-06-06 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear all, BTW, who of us played lute or vihuela better in 1970's than those video examples of Williams or Akkermann, not to speak of Bream? Just a thought... Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[VIHUELA] Re: Lute in 70's Was: hmm

2006-06-06 Thread Arto Wikla
James Tyler, Robert Spencer, Anthony Bailes, Diana Poulton, Dumbois, Donna Curry, Richard Glenn, Jurgen Hubscher, Walter Gerwig, Konrad Ragossnig, Anthony Rooley, Narcisso Yepes And you never know how far to the skies the Internet reaches today... Arto To get on or off this list see

[VIHUELA] Free music, was: Concert in Helsinki (fwd)

2006-04-06 Thread Arto Wikla
Utopia dir. and baroque harp Andrew Lawrence-King . * Ricardo Padilla, percussion * Annamari Pölhö, organ * Visa Jämsä, dulcian * Arto Wikla, chitarrino * Timo Peedu, baroque guitar * Teppo Hirvonen, baroque guitar Composers: Milan, Gutiérrez de Padilla, Hidalgo

[VIHUELA] Re: Mean tone temperament

2006-03-23 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear Monica I don't know whether there is still anyone on this list - but if there is There are! ;-) perhaps they can tell me what they know about Mean Tone Temperament on plucked stringed instruments, especially the baroque guitar. For background you perhaps can read the following

[VIHUELA] Re: Mean tone temperament

2006-03-23 Thread Arto Wikla
of keyboard instruments are really useful in fretted lutes/theorboes/guitars - we have to use one string/course for many notes... I believe in the practical ways of setting our movable frets, and the use of some tastini here and there, see my quotations of V. Galilei: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla

[VIHUELA] Re: Some music by me (Was: Sanz uploads

2005-11-15 Thread Arto Wikla
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, billkilpatrick wrote: scorching, arto. i took the liberty of posting your mp3 address to the various charango sites. complimenti - bill Thanks Bill. I added also my tab of the Bella Pedrina (and some other pieces) to the page. So you can see I strum much more than

[VIHUELA] Some music by me (Was: Sanz uploads)

2005-11-14 Thread Arto Wikla
in my arrangement of Zannetti's Bella Pedrina... ;-) The address of the page is http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/own/ Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[VIHUELA] Re: Sanz uploads

2005-11-04 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear Rob, you wrote among other matters: Your comment about the bray harp (see below) is an interesting one. For those who are unaware, the 'bray' refers to a bit of wood on the soundboard of a Renaissance harp which touched the string gently. As the string was struck it would buzz as it

[VIHUELA] 4 course music in Braye ms.

2005-11-04 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear vihuelists and early guitarists, this info has been already submitted to the lute list, but perhaps everyone here is not reading the main list. That is why I copy my messages here: In Yale, Beinecke Lib. there are some mss. online. I happened to notice that there are also some pieces for

[VIHUELA] Re: rasgueo

2005-09-15 Thread Arto Wikla
Hi (and a copy to the vihuela-list) On Thursday 15 September 2005 01:35, you wrote: thank you arto, i will. i think i have a cd of his ... does he play harp? He is a harpist virtuoso, but in his bands there have been also strummers of renaissance and baroque guitars. I'll google a little,

[VIHUELA] Re: rasgueo

2005-09-14 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear Bill, On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, bill kilpatrick wrote: andean. haven't a clue what rhythms might have been popular during the baroque period in europe (outside the conservatory, of course ... ) you game to try something from the baroque repertoire with a south american flavor? ..

[VIHUELA] Re: guitar continuo

2005-08-14 Thread Arto Wikla
Hi all On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Lex Eisenhardt wrote: There is Biagio Marini's op XXII. In this ensemble work of rather straightforward homophonic dances Marini added alfabeto. The guitar can be used, 'a beneplacito'. There is a modern edition by S.P.E.S. In this case the guitar is probably

Re: re-entrant tuning, las sirenas, jarana

2005-05-18 Thread Arto Wikla
: There is quite vast amount of music for chitarrino, renaissance 4 course guitar, guitarra di sette corde. If you want so see mine, take a look to http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/LutePics/Chitarrino.gif and http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/LutePics/ArtoChitarrino.gif The instrument