On 2 July 2011 15:49, Mathias Roesel <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not so sure, however, that there's no point in > playing the lute
The beauty of doing a pointless thing is, that it being without point, you can pursue it without any reason outside your own desire to do so. That is the whole point of doing pointless things. >> Art is a personal expression of universal value, > > That concept of the arts has developed in Western Europe in the wake of > political emancipation during the 18th-19th centuries. Before that era, > artists would usually not consider themselves autonomous so as to make use > of their art in order to express themselves. Most lute music dates from > times older than that. Point taken. But without the high-blown words I think it's fair to say that much lute music is still very personal. Perhaps in older times more expressions of craftsmanship than art, but still, personall expressions. >> I believe that for a player it helps to understand the coding to play the >> music more convincingly. > > A pivotal point IMO: Convincingly for whom? For me, remember: lute playing is just for me, that was the whole point of doing pointless things. >> Performing their music with another sound will give different results. > > Let's split some hairs. Wouldn't you say that performing music with > different instruments is different in itself, notwithstanding the results > (pleased / disappointed / disgusted audience)? The music is different, > although the score / tab may be the same, because the aesthetics are > different. Oh yes, certainly. Music on paper is interesting to look at, but not music. Only when it sounds (real or imagined btw) is it music. Make it sound different, and it is different music. > I know people who hate that sound. It's not what they > expect a real minstrel's lute to sound, you know ... I do know. But I might not be what they expect a real minstrel to be anyway. I don't (usually) sing to my lute playing either, nor do I wear a feather in my cap. ;-) 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
