At 03:01 PM 2/9/05 -0800, Mark D Lew wrote: >How do you figure only "a few decades"? As I understand it, he is >saying: >- Any composer born in 1630 who was considered great in 1780 maintained >his reputation 1780-2005.
[...] He said: >From the late 18th c. on (that is, since the >time when the idea took hold that great works of art have permanent >value), I cannot think of a single composer, in any genre, who having >been considered great at the age of 150, came to be considered >insignificant, or even minor, at any later time. Since he dangle his grammatical temporal dongle, I wonder if he'd clarify if he meant the fame from the late 18th century on, or the composer from the late 18th century on. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
