What you say is very true and it fits in a with a review that our new CD got in Fono Forum, Germany's flagship classical music magazine, we got top marks but strangely with the heading Jazz & Rock :)
You can read it here... http://www.pantagruel.de/news.html For those who want to hear what it sounds like the Dutch Conzertzender played most of it on their Early music programme and you can stream it here http://www.concertzender.nl/programmagids.php?date=2011-05-01&month=1&detail=48854 all the best Mark On May 5, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Martin Shepherd wrote: > Yes, Arto, I agree absolutely that all music is "modern" music. If I play a > piece "by Dowland" it is actually also a piece by me, because I'm playing it > and making all sorts of choices about how I want it to sound. The result may > bear little resemblance to any music anyone heard four centuries ago. > > Thanks for making this point! > > Best wishes, > > Martin > > On 05/05/2011 20:46, wikla wrote: >> Hi Martin (and all), >> >> thanks for your interesting posting! Mainly I agree, but still a couple >> modest comments (in my limited English): >> >> On Thu, 05 May 2011 17:26:13 +0100, Martin Shepherd<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> In historical lute music, there are already several different >> "harmonic >>> languages", or at least compositional styles, though they are all what >>> we might call "tonal" music of one kind or another. "Atonal" music >> may >>> not be so suitable - see under question 2. >> Actually music up to the beginnings of the 17th century was mainly modal, >> not tonal; it was based on modes, not on the I-IV-V-I style tonal harmony >> progressions. That "Shcenkerial" idiom could perhaps be called "amodal", as >> later the escape from the tonal harmony was called "atonal"...;-) >> >>> People who play the lute typically do so because they are interested >> in >>> music of the past, but people who listen may be just as interested in >>> the lute per se, as an instrument with a particular voice. >> The only music there is, is the music of this moment. In this sense all >> music is "modern music". Music "in the past" was heard by persons long time >> ago passed. One can even claim that music exists only when it happens - >> when you hear it. When a piece ends, its "music" is gone... >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Arto >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
