Is talking good sense traditional?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Seattle Sent: 17 June 2011 10:49 To: Dartmouth NPS Subject: [NSP] Re: The Dartmouth Competitions Lotsa fun here - Adrian's inspired '6 classes' made me laugh out loud As for 'tradition', it is a neutral, value-free term, there are good traditions and bad - human sacrifice was traditionally practised in some cultures.. As for 'can you play' - in one sense, of course Anthony can play, Adrian can play, and so on. In another sense, none of us can play. Music is a manifestation of Grace beyond all of us. If we are fortunate, occasionally Music visits our stumbling endeavours, and we are blessed. To place a method of articulating notes (detached fingering) above all other considerations - the most obvious being 'which notes?' - is, I venture, missing the point of the exercise. As for Billy Pigg, as has been said here before, his 'Wild Hills' was what pulled many of us in here. It's not pure anything, in the sense of the detached style of the mining areas, or the lilting rhythms of the hill tribes, and it's not faultless playing. But it is pure magic. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
