If you are interested in typography there are some great free medieval
and renaissance fonts. I found them originally from a note in a
footnote in an article in one of the LSA Quarterlies that led me to
[1]www.luminariium.org
Go to the search and type in fonts and some interesting links will come
up. There are also a lot of other interesting things on this web site.
One of the things that I find interesting about the lute world, as
compared to Celtic music where I have spent a lot a years doing
business, is the imbalance between players and fans. In the Celtic
world there are many, many fans who have never played an instrument and
just like to listen. These people go to concerts and festivals, buy
CDs, T shirts and DVDs. They have groups of amateur musicians and some
wonderful professionals, but much smaller percentages than I see in the
lute world. Lute music and early music seems to have a bigger
percentage of amateurplayers and then there are all the potential fans
or players, who don't even know it exists. Some of the Celts talk
about how wonderful it was when Riverdance came through and there were
lots more people interested, but now all that has died down and we are
back to near the level of interest before Riverdance.
Nancy
If all we encode is the music we disapoint those interested in the
typography etc; but that is a seperate issue, one that librarys and
other
holders of the original publications and Mss need to address
photographically. Archived encodings of the music would be of
service to
musicologists and players, and might well reduce pressure on the
originals, provided our work is done accurately.
> there would be 20 times more
> professional players, and thousands more amateurs.
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References
1. http://www.luminariium.org/
2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
3. http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/
4. http://lutesocietyofamerica.org/
