Hi all, On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, G.R. Crona wrote:
> surrealistic. The music was definitely what you would today call > "avantgardistic", although still (barely) inside the musical idiom or fold > of the times. The text dealt with the word "fum�". I always believed "fum�" > came to Europe with the discovery of tobacco after Columbus 1492. So what > was this "fum�"? Tobacco, or something else? The radio DJ:s were musing on > this subject and said: " The EM community have snubbed the drug theory and > seen it more as an allegory or symbolically". Dear G�ran, just check "Avignon" and at least a couple of Popes at the same time, etc... ;-) I just guess it was opium the gang of composers in Avignon were using? Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
