Anthony Hind
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:16:04 -0800
RobYou have given us no news of the latest arrival. perhaps you have not had enough time, but we are all (well at least, one of us) waiting impatiently to hear about it.
Regards Anthony PS I remembered the Baroque list too, this time.I am trying to make a question about what the "ideal" French Baroque lute might be. Let's not call it standard (as in the 8c debate. but I suppose there is a tendency to standardize, thus the tendency to Frei/ Frey). I wish it was possible to settle on one lute (close enough to this ideal) for all the repertoire, but I doubt this is possible. There may be more than one "ideal" according to the phase within this period (French Baroque) or even according to composer/performer.
We also probably give too much importance to the very few texts that talk about this from the period. I am wondering whether taking Burwell too literally would not be like taking one of my students notes, or even my notes for my students, too seriously.
AH Le 12 déc. 07 à 16:17, Rob a écrit :
Very clever, Joseph, but I never once said that 'Weiss hints that he usednails'. I see no evidence for that in Weiss' or my own comments. This one could run and run...I'm off to practice my new 11c... Rob =========I think this might be a case of "front-end loading." That is: looking atdata from an established point of view - to whit:Weiss hints that he used nails - that's inconclusive. If Weiss hinted thathe didn't use nails - that would be evidence. Joseph Mayes To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html