Thanks to Howard and Jon for their excellent suggestions. I was mostly
puzzled because I thought about the Torah which I think is on a scroll: how
do you handle page turns on a scroll...
Alain
At 09:25 PM 3/15/2004, Howard Posner wrote:
>Alain Veylit at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > But what o
My guess as to "Hebrew fashion" would be rather innocuous. The Englishman of
the 1770's would probably know Jews whom he didn't consider Hebrew. But he
would have seen the observant of the old culture davening (sp?) as they
pray. England of that time had Jews who were of the establishment (and a
hu
Alain Veylit at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But what on earth is "signalling a page-turn in
> Hebrew-fashion"?
It could simply mean turning back to the previous page (for the da capo), as
if reading from right to left as in Hebrew.
Less likely, I think, it could refer to an ethnic stereotype abou
While hunting for Mrs Hunt on the Grove, I found this interesting anecdote
from one of Michel Corrette's method, showing that archlutes were still
widely in use in the 1770's in England and, incidentally, that there is
no end to human ridicule. But what on earth is "signalling a page-turn in
