Early muisic movement? Is there a manifesto? Play it as you hear and feel it, make it your own. Do with it what you will. I've played Bela Bartok, Charlie Parker and Lennon and MacCartney as well as Dowland, Terzi and da Milano. I think Sting's heart is in the right place. He did the CD because he loves the lute and Dowland's music, at least thay's what he says' I don't think he ever expected it to become all that commercially successful. Let those who wish to play double strung play and those who wish to play single strung play. I don't conceive of my job as a lutenist to reproduce a performance by John Dowland. ( Not that I could). To paraphrase William "Count" Basie, I just do what I like to do and if it's HIP, that's great. If not, I'm doing what I like to do. Not that I don't value historical research. I eagerly study the results of scholars into HIP. Every insight helps me to understand and value this music more. And adds to my tool kit. Well, I guess I better go listen to the samples of the Sting CD so I can see what the redness and the swelling is all about.
Best to All Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:58 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Single strung archlute !!! > In einer eMail vom 25.09.2006 17:25:56 Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit schreibt > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Interestingly, POD suggested single stinging as an option. > > If this is true then maybe the time has come for a reformation of the early > music movement, how did we get in this mess ! > Mark > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 > >
