Certainly nothing wrong with dances and ballad tunes, as you demonstrate. Is the tuning similar to the 4-course?
I'm not familiar with mandore literature, and now I'm looking forward to learning more about it. JN On 1/11/2011 2:34 PM, "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >On 11/01/2011 01:48, Nelson, Jocelyn wrote: >> I really enjoyed this, Stuart. Thanks for posting! >> Best, >> Jocelyn >> >> >> >Thanks! > >I have only one section of the Ulm collection and in that there are 123 >pieces for five-course mandore (fingerstyle or mixed plectrum and >fingers) and a small number for four-course mandore (probably plectrum). >So the Skene and the Ulm collections make up several hundred pieces - >approaching the size of the repertoire for the four-course guitar. And >then there are the Chancy pieces and some other things. > >Of course the four-course guitar's repertoire is more varied: songs, >abstract pieces, chanson settings as well as dances etc and the mandore >repertoire seems to be mainly dances and ballad tunes. Very nice though. > > >Stuart > > > >> >> On 1/10/2011 7:04 AM, "Chris Despopoulos"<despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks... My instrument is 30 cm, and actually 5-course, single >>> strung. I presume it's made according to historical >>>understanding... >>> I believe Carlos Gonzales is a historian as well as builder -- he's >>> planning a workshop on building ancient Egyptian/Coptic lutes this >>> April, for example. I prefer to use the thin quill of a feather as >>>a >>> plectrum, as I saw done on the R. lute once. For as thin and short >>>as >>> the strings are, it helps to have something equally tiny to set the >>> string in motion. And of course, the Chancy MS is to be done with a >>> plectrum as far as I know. >>> But I have to say, your playing had me fooled... It sounds like a >>> mandore to me! And they are lovely tunes. >>> cud >>> __________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> From: Stuart Walsh<s.wa...@ntlworld.com> >>> To: Vihuelalist<vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> >>> Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 6:19:40 AM >>> Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: some Ulm mandore pieces >>> Thanks Chris >>> I should have said I'm not playing these pieces on a mandore, but >>>on a >>> small, single-strung instrument, tuned like a mandore. My instrument >>> has a string length of 37cms and so is larger (and, no doubt, >>>easier to >>> play) than a typical four-course, four-string mandore. On the other >>> hand, maybe there was a difference in size between the four-course >>> (four-string) plectrum-played mandore and the five-course, >>>fingerstyle >>> (or plectrum+fingers style) instrument. >>> I knew about the Ulm tablatures from Donald Gill and James Tyler >>>but it >>> was Jean-Marie Poirier who pointed me in the direction of the >>>Cornetto >>> catalogue. >>> [1]http://www.faksimiles.org/verlag.htm >>> I think there are three separate tabaltures in the Ulm collection >>>and >>> the Cornetto facsimiles are quite expensive. At Jean-Marie's >>>suggestion >>> I got Cornetto catalogue, 0073 which turned out to be two >>> nicely-produced facsimiles. The main 'book' (there's probably a >>> technical name for a publication roughly 8 inches by 6 inches) has >>> music for a five course instrument and uses a couple of tunings but >>> mainly one (in fourths and fifths, without lowering the first >>>course). >>> Like the Skene MS, it has to be fingerstyle or plectrum plus >>>fingers. >>> The supplementary 'book' has only a few pieces, all or mainly from >>>the >>> larger collection, but now set for a four-course instrument, >>>presumably >>> to be played with a plectrum. >>> Stuart >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >>> -- >>> >>> References >>> >>> 1. http://www.faksimiles.org/verlag.htm >>> 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >> >> >> >
