Yes, a little complicated, but I'm sure we can all stumble along... ;-) On Jan 27, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Craig Robert Pierpont wrote:
> Anthony's discussion of the oud in the middle east raises an > interesting question . It's a little complicated but follow me here. > > As I understand it, the middle east has a contiguous oud > tradition while the west has a lute revival. Without bifircating > the bunny about the description, do you see the difference? Without what...? (but yes, I can see the difference.) > Lute players ofter ask how the Old Ones would have done it. As do players in your own world of the clarsach. One could make similar points: HIP wire-strung purists who have "reconstructed" the techniques of the Old Ones, the people who play modern commercial music on the folk harp, those who adhere faithfully to what they perceive to be the true "folk traditions" of their particular region (and the intensifying effect upon those traditions made by foreign "visitors"?). Who's right? Who's wrong? Who's authentic? Who's the most pedagogical? etc. etc. What do these things tell us about the future of clarsach playing? > While I have heard some music performed on oud that was obviously > inspired by modern music, what of the bulk of the oud music being > performed today? Is it a steadily evolving tradition? A constant > attempt to replicate The Old Ones? A style of playing based on age > old patterns and pedagogy that keeps it similar to the music of the > middle ages? A combination of the above or something else altogether? I think it's all of the above. David R [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rastallmusic.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
