Dear Silvia, I cannot find any references to your thesis. Is it finished? For the doctorate or masters? Could you provide a title and bibliographical information? Many thanks.
Arthur Ness arthurjn...@verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: Silvia Amato <amato.sil...@cs.dartmouth.edu> To: Matthew Daillie <dail...@club-internet.fr> Cc: Ron Andrico <praelu...@hotmail.com>; LS LUTELIST <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Thu, Mar 15, 2018 7:53 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Some questions Actually we do have some of them and this is one of the topics that I have dealt with in my thesis (modern and contemporary Lute music), it's a very interesting research that goes on, looking for new aspects still to be dealt with Best regards to all Silvia Inviato da iPhone > Il giorno 15 mar 2018, alle ore 12:13, Matthew Daillie <dail...@club-internet.fr> ha scritto: > >> On 15/03/2018 01:45, Ron Andrico wrote: >> I don't usually bother to respond to your sniping noises, >> >> There is no stature to be gained by treating the work of others with >> disdain while claiming a morally superior position > > Goodness Ron , those are comments that could definitely have granted you a valuable source of introspection. The art of projection never ceases to amaze me. > > Gilbert Isbin's email was quite belligerent in its questioning. My post was a straightforward answer. I have nothing against lute players composing and performing their own music, I just don't wish to be aggressively interrogated as to why I'm not buying or playing it. > > I never said that I prefer 'old music', just that I don't see much 'new' lute music out there to compete with the production of the great masters. We seem to be forgetting that the lute was THE instrument of its age and that many of the works which have come down to us are the acme of musical production. > > I cannot think of a major composer today who only writes for one instrument. If we look at 20th century music, very often the great instrumentalists commissioned works from contemporary distinguished composers. Maybe we need one of today's top lutenists to do the same, just as Julian Bream commissioned Benjamin Britten to write Nocturnal for guitar (based on Dowland's 'Come Heavy Sleep') over 50 years ago. The filter of time has not yet finished its job and we do not know what works will survive for prosperity but we can look back at the 20th century and find an endless list of great composers (Bartok, Berio, Britten, Crumb, Dutilleux, Gubaidulina, Kurtag, Ligeti, Messiaen, Prokofiev, Rihm, Shnittke, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, to name but a few). Maybe we need a composer of their ilk to write for the lute before there is a real renaissance of its music. > > Then there is the captivating experience of playing music which is 500 years old and yet speaks to us directly with ineffable force and beauty. That fascination, in conjunction with the historical, artistic and musicological riches which accompany our music-making, are surely the main reasons why most of us took up the lute in the first place. > > Best, > > Matthew > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
