On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:40 PM, <chriswi...@yahoo.com> <chriswi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It may be a problem for us, but it wasn't for them. French > lute music remained current throughout the German baroque. The > Gaultier/Mouton "La Belle Homicide" shows up in the Augsburg ms. > right alongside Falckenhagen, Hagen, Kleinknecht and Haydn. It and > a host of other French favorites show up in other German > manuscripts until the bitter end. Baron, although he didn't speak > highly of French music, was obviously familiar with the repertoire. > > Remember, the 13-course started life as an 11-course with a couple > of extra courses slapped on with a rider. Surely no late players > would have set their (quite likely intentionally converted) 13- > courses down every time they got the hankering for some brise. What does soft ripened cheese have to with it? > Today, nobody should deprive themselves from playing this beautiful > music just because of our completely un-historical need to > compartmentalize things. Just as we were about to descend into a major episode of HIP Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, your words are a welcome medication. Except the part about Camembert. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
