tempos chosen to allow the contrapuntal lines to connect --
if the music is taken too slowly, it becomes disjointed as
individual notes die away before the next notes continue the line.
This betrays a rather low opinion of the modern listener's ability to
actually hear and follow contrapuntal lines. I don't think having a
note die away before the next one in its line is heard prevents one from
hearing it as a continuous voice. Just as in social dialog, different
voices take *turns*, not all talking at once. Its partly that gracious
interaction of the lines that you need the space and time to appreciate.
And at least this modern listener can follow and appreciate polyphony
doing that in lute music without the sound being utterly continuous.
Suzanne
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