At a lute festival I met a member of an ensemble which played medieval music and she said (before a baroque recital): "come on let's go to the cinema - I can't stand that modern stuff" :-) I do understand Michael's point regarding the modernity of guitar notation but given a time line of - say 900 up to now - something which is 200 years old is fairly new.
Best wishes Thomas Am Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 19:57 schrieb Craig Allen: > 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 -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ab 15.7. neue Adresse: Wiesentalstrasse 41 CH-8355 Aadorf http://www.lautenist.de http://www.lautenist.de/bduo/ http://www.lautenist.de/gitarre/ http://www.tslaute.de/weiss/
