howard posner
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:49:21 -0700
On Apr 24, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Stuart Walsh wrote: > Monica's position is rather like mysterianism in the philosophy > of mind. It's all just one big mystery: the stringing , the > tuning, the performance practice of the seventeenth century > guitarists- the existing evidence points anywhere and nowhere. No > definitive conclusions (she philosophises) can ever be drawn. > > So if the seventeenth century guitarists are hidden away in their > world, it's no surprise that Monica thinks that: > > "we can only play the music in a way that makes sense to us today" > > Now this is either a harmless truism or a trenchantly radical > position. No wonder she gets into scraps with people! To be fair, I think Monica was trying to avoid one here by not reiterating her position on the high G octave string. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html