Martyn,
--- On Sat, 7/2/11, Martyn Hodgson <[email protected]> wrote: > > The whole effort of historical musicology > for at least the past 50 > years has been to determine, in so far as > the evidence exists and to > the best of our ability, what the earlier > composers (and thus their > audiences) would have expected. > Really? I gathered that the whole point of historical musicology involves adopting some all-embracing modern social thesis (usually inherited from one's doctoral advisor and of a properly radical persuasion) and then diligently applying oneself to creating a decontextualized selective historiography demonstrating how all of the "great ones" were secretly ardent adherents of the then-heretical philosophy. I'm thinking of something like Susan McClary's hypothesis that Schubert's instrumental music is really a thinly veiled homosexual manifesto because he often used "girly" chords related by thirds. Chris To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
