On Feb 1, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > Consider that EGBaron, a journeyman lute personality, considered himself > nothing less that an Orpheus. And you can only imagine SLW's opinion of > himself. > And that is the mindset of the whole lutenism, an entirely apollinian culture.
Even if we assume that Baron, the Royal Prussian Lutenist, and Weiss, the highest-paid musician in the near-legendary Dresden court, felt themselves or their instrument too Apollonian to play for dancers, it's a huge jump to say that no lute player ever did it. Three or four generations of luters spent their lives playing sarabandes, courantes and bourrees. It's pretty much impossible that none of them ever played while someone was actually dancing -- even if practical problems presented presented by dancers wearing hard soles on hard floors in resonant rooms made solo lutes a poor choice for dance accompaniment. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
