‘The best way of play’
Around 13 years ago after my end-of-year recital as a student studying classical guitar in Dublin I ceremoniously cut off the fingernails on my right hand. I had decided to become a lutenist! I preferred the music, there was more of it and the possibility of far more social music making made my choice an easy one.
Approximately 5 years ago, I decided let the nails on my right hand grow. Was I intending to take up the guitar once more …
Non-interpretation of baroque music
Something I’ve been thinking about for some time is the aspect of interpretation in baroque music. Todays big stars are conductors, directors, singers and musicians – all interpreters of baroque music. But how different this is to the 18th century! There were singers and musicians who were stars of course, but the famous directors of the 18th century also wrote and performed their own music. They didn’t have to ‘interpret’ it, they just played it!
With today’s famous directors and conductors …
WordPress 3.0 custom queries, post types and taxonomies
There’s been a few really great articles recently published about the new custom posts features in the WordPress 3 Beta, most notably Justin Tadlock’s excellent article and an equally enlightening post on wpengineer.com. I’ve had some fun experimenting a little with the new possibilities opened up to me with this new functionality but I very quickly came up with a problem that took quite a bit of head scratching to solve, namely how to filter my query to a custom …
website 3.0
I’m delighted to welcome you to the third version of richardsweeney.com!
The typography is based on a few 17th century books that are important sources for my work with historical performance and that have kept me good musical company over the years. John Dowland’s ‘varietie of lvte lessons’ (published 1610) was of particular interest to me, the typography is beautiful, not to mention the music!
I had been planning to start writing a blog for a while now and having worked a …
Callino Quartet Website redesign
I’ve just launched my redesign of the Callino Quartet’s website!
The original site was not in any way ugly, but it was a pain for the quartet to keep updated and looked a little dated. The code was butt-ugly and needed a complete overhaul. I used WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System) for the site and rewrote the code using standards compliant xHTML & CSS (with the exception of a few CSS3 additions) plus a little PHP and a dash …
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