*Pssst*, that's "misspelling." Teasingly, Eugene
> -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Walsh [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 7:11 AM > To: Monica Hall > Cc: Vihuelalist > Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar duo (Merchi) > > Monica Hall wrote: > > Spelling has never been my strong point! > > > > Monica > > Good grief! I was pointing out my mis-spelling not yours!!! > > Do you know anything that has been written about the Merchis? (Other > than Groves, Tyler and the SPES intro) Or any reason to think that a > publication that says it's by Giacomo Merchi rather than just M.Merchi, > should not be by Giacomo? > > > Stuart > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh" <[email protected]> > > To: "Monica Hall" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:45 PM > > Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar duo (Merchi) > > > > > >> Stuart Walsh wrote: > >>> > >>>> Finally got to listen to this. V. nice - but is it 2 Stuarts > >>>> playing - and are they playing baroque or classical guitars? > >>>> > >>>> Monica > >>> > >>> Thank you for listening Monica. It's just me playing - finally > >>> coming to terms with a multi-track recording device I got ages ago. > >>> And it's just my very (very!) humble five-course guitar - but with > >>> the bourdons reversed so the thumb hits the bourdon first. According > >>> to Tyler this publication is from 1757. I think it's a fine little > >>> Minuetto and it has a sort of swaggeriness that sort of reminds me > >>> of Mertz from a century later. > >>> > >>> So now I'm fascinated by Merchi ("the Jack and Joe mystery"). There > >>> seems to be very little on the Internet on the Merchi brothers - > >>> little more than a couple of paragraphs about their concerts and > >>> speculations about their dates. There is an online pdf in Italian > >>> on G or J's song accompaniments. There is also the Groves entry > >>> which says that Giacomo and Joseph Barnard are frequently confused. > >>> Tyler has a couple of pages and the SPES edition of some of > >>> Giacomo's (if it was Giacomo?) works and an introduction (in > >>> Italian). Do you know of anything else? > >> > >> And, of course, your discussion of stringing from Joseph Bernard > >> (not Barnard!)on your website too!! > >> > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> Stuart > >> > >> > >>>> > >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh" > >>>> <[email protected]> > >>>> To: "Vihuelalist" <[email protected]> > >>>> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:29 PM > >>>> Subject: [VIHUELA] Baroque guitar duo > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Here's the Minuetto from the fourth Duetto 'a due chitarre' by > >>>>> Giacomo Merchi...1770s-ish? James Tyler and Robert Spencer > >>>>> recorded the preceding Allegro (how long ago!)and maybe recorded > >>>>> this one too. Merchi also published 'Sei Duetti a Chitarra e > >>>>> Violino Con sordina' and number 4 is almost the same as the fourth > >>>>> Duetto for two guitars but there are a lot of small differences. > >>>>> The guitar/violin version has an additional movement and, at a > >>>>> cursory glance, the guitar/violin duets look a bit more fancy than > >>>>> the guitar duets. > >>>>> > >>>>> http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/Minuetto.mp3 > >>>>> > >>>>> Stuart > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> To get on or off this list see list information at > >>>>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> No virus found in this incoming message. > >>>> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus > >>>> Database: 270.10.8/1897 - Release Date: 16/01/2009 06:52 > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> No virus found in this incoming message. > >>> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus > >>> Database: 270.10.8/1897 - Release Date: 16/01/2009 06:52 > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.8/1897 - Release Date: > 16/01/2009 06:52 > > > >
