At 04:17 PM 8/3/2005, Roman Turovsky wrote: >Quirks don't make profound. > >Technical idiosyncrfasies are not musical substance.
I certainly wouldn't argue that they are, but they are important considerations of instrumental composition and can amount to something rather exciting. That's why Giuliani remains popular; it's fun and should be enjoyed without shame for what it is, even if it's not quite on par with the sophistication of Mozart's Requiem or Beethoven's Hammerklavier. Mozart, in writing for mandolin, barely glanced towards profundity and wholly skirted technically advanced. Again, I doubt he would have offered the guitar anything different. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
