Just as you say, dear David! :-)

But isn't it anyhow very happy that we do have our modern Monteverdi,
Lully, Gallot, B.Strozzi and all those guys and girls! They've put some ink
on paper and we can still feel deep and happy by trying to understand and
even play some sounds and music by reading those old vanishing spots of
ink!!

Arto

On Thu, 5 May 2011 22:02:58 +0200, David van Ooijen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5 May 2011 21:46, wikla <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> The only music there is, is the music of this moment. In this sense all
>> music is "modern music".
> 
> Taking that one step further, I think all of today's so-called Early
> Music is just another form of modern music, and has but little to do
> with historical music as it was played, perceived, valued or even
> written 'back then'. Our Early Music movement is just a form of modern
> music in disguise. But one that pays my bills, so perhaps I should be
> more carfeul in my writings. ;-)
> 
> David



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