On Jan 16, 2008, at 3:21 AM, Martyn Hodgson wrote: > As you imply: I guess it's because they can't be bothered to > learn to read on an A instrument
A lot of people prefer to work in those areas they're most familiar with. We have modern editions of Italian music in French tablature, because French tab is the one that a lot of people feel more at home with. We tend to stay with the techniques we're most familiar with, and in some cases we tend to stay with the types of music we're most familiar with. Someone (a most renowned and magisterial figure in the lute world ;-) ;-) ;-)) said to me last year: "Baroque lute is late-period and decadent. I don't accept it." Another equally renowned luter told me last year, "if it's not renaissance music I don't play it." It's not laziness; just a reluctance to go beyond what's familiar. > and don't appreciate that the theorbo isn't just a big lute. The lute list's favorite riddle: "when is a lute not a lute?" If I see theorbos in general as continuo-lutes, and the large theorbos as double-bass lutes, what am I failing to appreciate? Am I missing something? David R [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
