Dear Rob,
Congratulations on a very pleasing performance. Lucky you. I have long
wanted to play such an instrument.
There is an original harp-like instrument by Light - no frets and
fingerboard, just harp-like strings - on sale for £3000 at Tony Bingham's
shop in London. Details at
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Hello Tobiah,
How absolute metric time could have been acheived in the Renaissance?
The tactus was a constant pulse behind the rhythm, but it was an
organic motion not a strict measured time like a metronome.
Actually, the only genre of music (which comes to my mind) that really
Hello Tobiah,
Einstein established that time (and space) is affected by gravity.
Just think of travelling through a musical piece where its emotional gravity
constantly changes. It will speed up and down accordingly, but the metre will
remain the same.
Just a thought.
Miles
On 2013-04-08,
Tobiah,
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I've heard it expressed by one professor, that
absolute metric time was desired during the Renaissance.
I very much doubt it. I've never met anyone who was alive during the
Renaissance to tell me what people desired in
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