Oates for TangerAbroad to many several places about several businessesPoetry and Police in Eighteenth Century Paris, Robert Darnton- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Fascinating article on the mechanisms of diffusion of popular verse in eighteenth century france. You can listen to the lecture as well (scroll down to "Robert Darnton") or read it here.http://www.cowderoy.com/cgi-bin/alan/blosxom/2008/Mar/2#poetry An index for the Laborde Chansonnier- (Found June 18, 2008 ) The Laborde chansonnier is one of the finest french song collection manuscripts to have survived. The publication by Octavo rarebookroom.org of a full digital version represents a wonderfull resource for those interested in the work and the songs it contains. As the site stands though it offers no information as to what songs are contained in the collection nor any way of accessing them by title or composer. That is the aim of this index.http://www.cowderoy.com/cgi-bin/alan/blosxom/2008/Apr/17#laborde Gentlemen prefer Brunetes- (Found June 18, 2008 ) When I published a facsimile of volume three of Ballards Brunetes ou petits airs tendre the first question several people asked was "Are you going to do volumes I and II" to which I replied that they were unfortunately more or less unobtainable. They were published in 1703 & 1704 and are much, much rarer than the third volume published in 1711. Well to my considerable delight and contrary to all expectations I have managed to find copies Taken as a whole these three volumes are an...http://www.cowderoy.com/cgi-bin/alan/blosxom/2008/Apr/28#more_brunetes Neuhaus fingering chart- (Found June 18, 2008 ) I have published a web and text version of the main Neuhaus traverso fingering chart at http:www.cowderoy.netneuhaus The main aim was to build a version useable on mobile phones or pdas so it's an extremely basic chart designed to fit on very small screens. Nevertheless this means that it is possible now to have a version of the primary reference chart for traverso fingerings available on small mobile devices. The book from which it is drawn is copyright Ardal Powell and this version is...http://www.cowderoy.com/cgi-bin/alan/blosxom/2008/Apr/29#annonce Ce caractre Tendre, Ais, Naturel, qui flatte toujours.- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Les airs dont il est compos ont t appells BRUNETES, par rapport celuy qui commence "Le beau Berger Tircis, &c" qui finit par ces paroles, "Helas, Brunets, mes amours," Une preuve de la bont de ces Airs, c'est que malgr leur anciennet, on ne laisse pas de les apprendre & de les chanter encore tous les jours; ceux mme qui possedent la musique dans toute son tendue, se font un plaisir d'y goter ce caractre Tendre, Ais, Naturel, qui flatte toujours, sans lasser jamais, & qui va beaucoup plus au...http://www.cowderoy.com/cgi-bin/alan/blosxom/2005/Apr/28#brunetes |