>that's what I tend to use) that in classical / art music terms >these days, a note >with a staccato dot should be played half length of what is >printed, (so a crotchet >becomes a quaver, for instance),
This is the convention I'm familiar with too. I find a useful practise technique for NSP, now that I'm emerging from the doldrums (= renewed obsession with fiddle/violin/viola/viols there are not enough hours in the day) and learning the Jacky Layton variations, is to set the metronome to the semiquaver (very slowly for the time being) and play the semis as demis, the quavers as semis, dotted quavers as quavers and crotchets as dotted quavers. Strict discipline, folks. Do you think Inky and the Big O would approve? Csírz PS détaché doesn't meant the same thing. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
