On Nov 12, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > Unless he meant it ironically/sarcastically. Take David vO. He is a > "universally known, skillful man"
Leaving his skills out of it, he certainly isn't universally known. Not like David Beckham or Osama bin Laden or Paris Hilton. Or Sting. Or Paul O'Dette. > and quite given to aristophilia. I can't imagine any meaning of "aristophilia" that would be relevant to the discussion. My Random House Unabridged can't imagine a meaning for it at all. > And if I say that he merits much emulation- would you really > believe me? Ha! A trick question! NOBODY ever knows whether to REALLY believe you, Roman. Anyway, you're not Vincenzo Galilei. You're probably a better composer, for one thing. But we're getting far afield here. Galilei was writing both an instruction and a polemic. If tastini were rare and not used by anyone prominent, why would he even bring them up? -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
