Hello, the recent postings on this topic gave me the imression that some people understood my postings as having a negative opinion regarding the music styles of at the medieval fairs. That is not the case. I really sympathise with people who stand in for doing the "Creative Anachronism". There is allot of truth in it.
Its just honest to say "yes, what we are doing is a fairy tale, yes we know this is for sure not how its known it was, yes its succsessfull entertainment". This also concerns the "early music concert" department. Also in this business there are many speculative elements and modernisms hidden from the audience. The differnce just is somehow between "we honestly care for the history" and "we honestly do not care" wherein honesty is the common ground. All I asked for is to be careful. We should just not forget that the audience cannot not know about this topic as much as the performers do. The audience does therefore not have (unlike the performers) the possibility to do an informed differentiation between historical truth and fairy tale. This gets us performers close to a position in which we are endangered to profit from someones naivity. In my *personal* catalog of fairness this is not the right way to go. I do not mean performers do this intenitionally, all I want to say is: be careful not to accidentally do this, by not being aware of the gap of knowledge between musicans and audience. In german I would put it to "Wissen verpflichtet" maybe this can be translated as "knowledge oblige". Kind regards, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
