On 9 September 2010 21:17, Edward Mast <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for your insightful article on the lute and Zen. Having a very set > routine for my daily practice of the lute, I have questioned ( myself ) if > such a routine is always a positive thing. I'm thinking of the instance > when someone might visit and ask to hear me play something - before I've been > through my routine. Would I feel unprepared and decline? Of course, the > obvious response seems: don't become attached to your routine.
I think here the Renaissance principle of decorum and sprezzatura comes into play: prepare, always prepare; expect the unexpected. But once put on the spot: improvise! Read Castiglione for more on this. (Perhaps I should include him into my Zen lute school ...) 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
