On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Arto Wikla <[email protected]> wrote: > understand, knowing the pieces, and hearing what you know, not exactly > what you really hear, was also the norm in the times of lute > intabulations: When a song is well known to you, you hear it also in an > intabulation that does not "repeat it all"!
Nice carols, well done. Not quite what you're saying, but related in the way that what's in our head when we are playing a piece we know well, is not always what we are actually playing. My late father - in no way musically inclined - made the comment once that a professional musician always listens to what he/she's playing, and that the non-profi hears what's in his head, the ideal performance if you like, whatever he/she's playing. Perhaps what you're saying is that arranging very well-known pieces is like that: you hear all the music anyway, even if you cannot play all the notes. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
