note: I am resenbding this message becasue it got caught in spam traps -
wayne
Dear Anton Hoger,
I sent you a private email trying to be helpful and was therefore a bit
surprised to find you didn't reply to me but instead fired off a touchy
general response! And I really don't know what you mean by
'insinuations' - insinuations of what? Believe it, or not, I was simply
trying to helpfully suggest that you might save yourself a lot of time
and effort if you read pieces directly from the staff notation and also
learned figured bass rather than always having to employ an
intermediate stage of written intabulation.
Now you raise the matter, generally I do think that most reasonably
competent players should be encouraged to make their own
arrangements/transcriptions in their own style and, as I say, to be
able to play reasonably fluently from staff notation without always
having to rely on a modern intabulation made by a third party.
Similarly, I think it good for lute players to be encouraged to become
fluent in Italian tablature without needing to rely on transcriptions
into the French system. The reliance on other peoples' arrangements and
transcriptions can, in my view, be restrictive and effectively close
much of the enormous wealth of music from all ages. I also believe
that the process of making ones own arrangements/transcriptions is
thoroughly enjoyable one (and really not 'rocket science') and is a
personally creative way for individuals to discover original music and
repertoire new to them. And, I might add, to create something which
ideally matches their individual technical capabilities, instrument(s)
and musical tastes.
MH
-------- Original message --------
From: Anton Hoeger
Date:2016-08-03 03:24 (GMT-05:00)
To: List Lutelist
Subject: [LUTE] insinuations
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Martin Hogson wrote:
>
> Dear Anton Hoger,
>
> Have you ever considered learning to play from figured bass? This
would save you much mundane work making these unnecessary
transcriptions/arrangements.
>
> MH
>
>
> Yes of course! But how do you bring my Renaissance Intabulations
with
Dimunitions in relation with a figured bass?
> These one has nothing to do with the other one!
> On the other side I have so far only very few Earlybaroque
figured
Bass edited pieces. Exactly this Arrangements may be interesting
for
the interprets. As a suggestion or such ways.
> My 100000 downloads and thousand credits show a different image
than
Your: ...making these unnecessary transcriptions!.........
> Please stop these insinuations, if you have no idea.
>
>
> Anton
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