On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Karen Hore <[email protected]> wrote: > What I thought immediately was how did the giver (s) of the course define > 'historical documentation'? A source is anything that can give you > information about what you are studying,
Nice to hear from a non-musician on this list. Welcome to the club! The course I referred to was (still is?) given to all students of the early music departement of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In my days it consisted of a number of projects a year. Each project had a theme, like French baroque, Monteverdi, Bach, whatever. These subjects served as excuses to invite specialists to teach us in lectures, workshops, masterclasses, concerts and the like. We had to read a lot, listen a lot and participate. The balance between the three depended on the guest speakers/musicians. For me it was a great chance to see and hear many great musicians talk about their music, see how they treated the sources and participate in their workshops/masterclasses. What I learnt is to never trust anything somebody else writes or says, to always go back to the primary sources and to always try and figure out myself what they mean. Help in interpreting these is always accepted, but not neccecarily trusted. And to have an open mind as to where you find primary sources or what a primary source can be. This links in nicely with what you had to contribute. David - also thinks the musicians are the nicest crew to hang around with. Did you notice they also know best about food and drink? -- ******************************* 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
