Thank you for your kind words!
MOnica
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From: "Ron Andrico" <[email protected]>
To: "Monica Hall" <[email protected]>; "Sean Smith" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 12:02 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Michael Fink's split 4th article
Monica, I salute you for this enlightened statement. Attempting to
make sense of something from the remote past based on misunderstanding
scant and flimsy evidence reminds me of the premise of the (historical)
novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz. If one want to examine the extent of
the harmonic resources of the renaissance guitar, try transcribing
music from Ukelele Ike.
RA
>
> As for as the idiosyncrasies which we find in the music - I am afraid
these
> just go with the territory. A 4-course instrument is quite limited
and the
> music just has to be arranged in a way that it can be played. You
just have
> to get used to it. Things were very different in the 16th century.
>
> Regards
> Monica
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