I was referring to the Mark Wheeler's theatrical approach to lute, with
moonwalks and hosiery.
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Samson" <[email protected]>
To: "Lute List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 4:34 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Saturday quotes
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
>>>
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>>>
>>> References
>>>
>>> 1. [9]http://wp.me/p15OyV-lv
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
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