On May 30, 2008, at 8:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many years ago as a very young teacher I was presented with a pupil
whose
family had just moved here from italy. He spoke very little English
but in my
ignorance I expected him to understand all the musical terms - I was
sorely
disappointed - as you said, the terms simply do not mean the same
thing in the
everyday language.
The Baroque scholar David Fuller told an anecdote of visiting Italy and
trying to get by on the 18th-c. Italian he was familiar with.
Everything went fine until he asked a church organist if it was OK for
him to play the organ. In modern Italian "to play [an instrument]" is
eseguire, but formerly it was toccare (to touch). He had just asked
the organist if it was OK to touch his organ!
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://www.kallistimusic.com/
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