RE Michael Jackson - I think it's the zombie look you get from spending too much time in solitary practice and losing your grip on reality. We've all been there, I suspect. The tricky part, though, is the dance moves . . .
Bill From: Gary Digman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 12 March 2012, 7:23 Subject: [LUTE] Re: Saturday quotes The "Michael Jackson" approach? Hanging the lute over the balcony railing? Playing with one hand in a glove? Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Turovsky" <[1][email protected]> To: "Mark Wheeler" <[2][email protected]>; "Ron Andrico" <[3][email protected]> Cc: <[4][email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:06 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Saturday quotes > Which sounds like an excuse for certain "Michael Jackson" approach to > Early > Music. > > Unrewarding, both visually and musically. > RT > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Wheeler" <[5][email protected]> > To: "Ron Andrico" <[6][email protected]> > Cc: <[7][email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 9:08 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Saturday quotes > > >> Reading this I can't help but feel that you are pressing for an aesthetic >> that is more a reaction to our modern world than one that reflects a >> possible 16th century cultural atmosphere.... >> >> Check out this excellent article by Liz Kenny... >> "The uses of lute song: texts, contexts and pretexts for aEUR~historically >> informed' performance" Early Music 2008/02 >> >> Here us a bit of the opening.. >> >> "Our enthusiasm for printed sources has obscured other ways of >> approaching >> these songs, and has artificially divided them from the songs of the next >> generation. What looks like a perfect balance on paper may or may not >> have >> remained so when the songs were performed, and the seductive solitude >> evoked by a book to be kept and treasured at home may not have always >> represented composer aEUR~intentions', if indeed we can separate these from >> performer intentions. The aEUR~miniaturist aesthetic' of privacy, secrecy and >> the aEUR~esoteric' often define this repertory. aEUR~Iconographical >> representations of the lute in performance of instrumental or vocal music >> ... consist- ently depict a theatre of privacy and solitude ... apart (or >> distanced) from public, courtly culture.' This may have been true of one >> group of performersaEUR"the most iconogenicaEUR"but it ignores what others were >> doing in other contexts, very definitely in public." >> >> The end (with lots of interesting stuff in-between....) >> >> "Early 17th-century musicians faced a challenge which their modern >> descendents have no trouble recognizing: that of adjusting their personal >> creative ambitions to different sorts of audience or consumer demand. >> This >> is not compatible with a philosophy of one aEUR~right' or even one generally >> preferable style of modern performance based on a careful sifting of his- >> torical evidence, if the sift eliminates evidence incom- patible with any >> single interpretative thesis. Modern ideas of aEUR~public' and aEUR~private' are >> not always helpful: traces of 17th- century public practice are to be >> found in privately circulated manuscripts, while widely available printed >> books facilitated solitary music- reading. To illuminate this repertory >> from scholarly angles we need not a normative musicology but a more >> cheerfully disruptive one: we might then use its tools to sharpen a new >> set of interpretive skills. As Robert Spencer said aEUR~I see nothing >> upsetting in that' " >> >> All the best >> Mark >> >> www.pantagruel.de >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 10, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Ron Andrico wrote: >> >>> We have posted our Saturday quotes on performing lute songs with no >>> gimmicks: >>> [1][8]http://wp.me/p15OyV-lv >>> Ron & Donna >>> >>> -- >>> >>> References >>> >>> 1. [9]http://wp.me/p15OyV-lv >>> >>> >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> [10]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> >> >> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.927 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/4264 - Release Date: 03/11/12 00:34:00 -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. mailto:[email protected] 7. mailto:[email protected] 8. http://wp.me/p15OyV-lv 9. http://wp.me/p15OyV-lv 10. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
