Dear Jean-Marie,
I was rather thinking of villages as far remote as Austria, Poland,
German speaking countries, where booklets abounded with French lute
music, yet teachers were far.
Mathias
"Jean-Marie Poirier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Well, Mathias, in those days like now Paris was just one town in France and
> even if the court resided there most of the time, they were also itinerant
> and the "Provinces" had a cultural life of their own. Thee were "maîtres de
> luth" in all or most cathedral cities and the Gallot, for instance, were
> originally from Angers, and the de Gallot who played barosque guitar in
> Ireland was from Nantes, and Moulinié was from the south of France, and
> Julien Belin, in mid-16th century, came from my home town of Le Mans, where
> he was musically educated in the local cathedral school ("Psalette")... If
> you want to grasp how lots of musicians were constantly on the move, read the
> book by Annibal Gantez, "L'entretien des musiciens", Auxerre, 1643 ( download
> it there : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57979f ). It is an essential
> account of musical life in the early 17th-century.
> People who wanted to study the lute could very well do so with one of thoses
> lute teachers who flourished for a while in provincial towns, far fom Paris
> indeed. Not everybody was to become a professional musician. Even if the
> capital worked like a sort of magnet, it did not attract, and chiefly did not
> keep, everybody, thank God !!!
>
> The so-called "French style" is, in my opinion, much more a matter of taste
> and culture (a much much wider subject to deal with) than technique...
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jean-Marie
>
>
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> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> >> Its very easy to trick oneself into
> >> believing that if you play French-style elements A, B
> >> and C the way that writers X, Y, and Z have described
> >> them that you're actually playing the style. The old
> >> ones didn't learn French style from books, afterall.
> >
> >Well, they did, in a way. Not everyone lived in Paris, nor did everybody
> >employ French teachers--except people like the Robarts, perhaps.
> >Tablature was a means to convey tradition which is why almost everyone
> >had their booklets ready and copied from one another. That's how French
> >style reached even remote villages like Ebenthal (to name but one).
> >Their situation isn't _that_ different from ours, I'd say. We'll never
> >know if Monsieur Vieux Gaultier had raised his brows about the practical
> >results someone in Carinthia would realize from a copy of La Belle
> >Homicide. OTOH how do you know what Miles David would have said about
> >youngsters playing his music in an attempt to path their own ways?
> >--
> >Mathias
> >
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