Von: [email protected] im Auftrag von David van Ooijen Gesendet: Sa 19.12.2009 14:01 An: Lute list
But I'm sure there are some listers eager to start a discussion on the liuto forte (again). -------------------- Beware: Do not read if you only talk to experts... I am an amateur and beginner, serious and eager to learn... but I am used to ask and discuss until I am really convinced... for the time being... This is certainly, and understandably a problem for people who are experts and want only to talk to experts, but how can a democratic discussion work with beginners and amateurs being excluded? And after all, more often than not expertise is the art to err according to rules... Ok. Thanks David. I am trembling with fear... hope my dear and admired lute teacher is not on the list... but I have to admit that I am owing a LIUTO FORTE (9 strings). Because I love the sound, especially if played with finder pad (not appreciated by Andre Burguete...) and now and then prefer it to the renaissance lute which I also owe. Two days before I played some renaissance pieces on the Liuto Forte, alternating with a actress who recited some of Shakespeare's sonettes. It was only a christmas party, but not unserious... The reaction was unexpectedly overwhelming with MANY people being extremely touched and excited by the lovely sound of the instrument! (I did not ask for feedback at all - but people came to me and their joy with the music and love of the instrument was obvious!) I see what is going on the list here: people - who are admeittedly hundert times better and learned than I am - launch extremely fine-grained and sophisticated arguments in favour of "original" (but actually not so original) lutes, original (but actually not so original) gut or nylgut strings, "original" (but obviously not so original) interpretations... I have only my sensitivity and taste, more natural than sophisticated probably, but who can say that it is in every respect less worth than the so-called experts' sensitivity and taste? You cannot give you up and leave everything to the pope(s), even as a beginner and amateur... So what is so terrible with the liuto forte - in renaissance and baroque times innovation was the rule... imagine that in 200 years from now a a discussion on a "jazz list" will try to find out about the "historically correct" interpretation of Herbie Hancock in the manner of this lute list... and actually I know EXPERTS who appreciate at least the power of tiorba forte in playing basso continuo... I teach my students: question the experts - what everybody believes has a good chance of being wrong and misguided... but you have to be open to learn... no need to appreciate a beginner's musings, but I REALLY want to learn, and how can that take place without asking and enerving the experts... :-) Franz ------------------------------------ Dr. Franz Mechsner Hanse Institute for Advanced Study Lehmkuhlenbusch 4 D-27753 Delmenhorst/Bremen GERMANY E-mail: [1][email protected] Phone: +49 (0)4221 9160-215 Fax: +49 (0)4221 9160-179 __________________________________________________________________ -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
