Michael wrote: > > Thomas, I usually see your logic, and agree with almost all of your >comments. However to call a system of guitar notation that has been around, >for 200 years, and used by the foremost guitar composers of the past and >present, a " relatively modern invention" your sense of the passage of time >is allot different than mine, what kind of sweetener are you using in you >coffee thesedays? I'd like to try some too!
At a guess I'd have to say that when a person who studies Renaissance and Medieval music calls a thing modern, 200 easily falls into that category. It's not an insult, just a fact of the thing being only 200 vs. 400 or more years old. Historians also often tend to call anything younger than the English Renaissance "modern". Regards, Craig ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
