Posner,
In the context of what Ness is saying, and all his previous emails trying to
establish pitch notation as superior to tablature, for lutenists........I most
certainly stand by what I said. He's saying that historically, novices read tab
until they go on to higher forms of notation, (pitch) I suggest you go back and
re read what Ness said, it's
right there on paper, and Posner, you can put the dictionary aside, there are
words in that sentence, even you can understand.
The challenge for you, "the village bore " is to get beyond your contempt
for me, and everything I say. From your screwy Geometry, to site reading, you
attack whatever I say.... That would be fine and welcome, but usually you
really have nothing much to say, other than to correct my spelling etc. How
juvenile!
Do you really believe Courperin wrote lute music?
Do you really believe Byrd wrote lute music? I'll help you out here
Posner, and give you a little heads up...."original" lute music is played ON
the lute, and historically lutenists spoke in tab as has been the case with
anybody of any significance. From Spinacino to Weiss.
Ness, is rewriting lute history as we speak. He's even suggested that DAS
come out with a revised edition of "History of the lute"! Do you agree with
this? All to prove his stupid point!
If we start using Ness's system of classification.... all music sinks into
the murky water of....neither fish nor fowl. You don't need to be a
musicologist to understand this mistake.
As Sal pointed out Beethoven's 9th sounds very different on piano, than
the original orchestral conception. In the same way Byrd's Keyboard music,
sounds way different on the lute. If you listen to Byrd's keyboard music on the
keyboard, the texture is much thicker, and almost impossible to play on the
lute. However, lute music is very easy on the keyboard. I doubt that any
keyboard player would play the exact lute version, it would sound pretty
sparse, They would do an arrangement, notice I used the word arrangement,
rather than transcription, in this case.
Paul Odette told me that when Bach Arranged the so called "e minor" lute
suite for keyboard, he added more chords changed the harmony, and thickened the
texture to sound better on keyboard.
In Nessisum, he proclaims a nihilistic doctrine , and BTW Posner, the
definition of nihilism....."1, a doctrine that all values are baseless, that
nothing is knowable, and itself meaningless". This pretty much describes Mr.
Ness's recipe for historical musical soup, yuck!
Michael Thames
www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com
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