It's a tragedy that words written on paper are going by the wayside. I just read today that the Encyclopedia Britannica will no longer publish a paper edition. [1]http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/13/encyclopedia-britannica- halts-print-publication While they will still maintain an editorial policy, the very idea of facts living only in the digital realm bothers me. So much information one finds buried in internet databases is unreliable. Anyway, the question of instruments in church has been debated ad nauseam. It seems that it was fairly common practice in the 16th century, and that it was widely accepted in the 17th century with the advent of motets with continuo accompaniment. "The Lute in Christian Spain" by Diana Poulton in _The Lute_ (Volume 19, 1977) is still a good source of information on the question of whether the lute was even used in the Catholic Kingdoms. Yet there are plentiful descriptions of instruments being used in liturgical music during the 16th, it seems especially in Spain. RA > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:39:17 +0000 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Nazi rules for jazz performers - Ban the Lute!!! > > And how do you know that whoever wrote all this nonsense has an accurate > source for all the misinformation that their account of their travels > includes? > > It reads like the same old myths that get trotted out in guide books to > "exotic" parts of the world which WASPs visit wearing rose-coloured > spectacles. > > Monica > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Harris" <[email protected]> > To: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:26 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Nazi rules for jazz performers - Ban the Lute!!! > > > > In the early 16th century, Lisbon banned the lute as being "dangerously > > muslim". > > > > http://lutetheinstrument.blogspot.com/ > > > > I am sure this included, by inference: "dangerously jewish", "dangerously > > gypsy", "dangerously secular", etc. > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
-- References 1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/13/encyclopedia-britannica-halts-print-publication
