To be honest - even if these articles are read by outside readers there is
no guarantee that they are gold standard.
I do get asked to peer review things. What happens is that you write your
comments and recommendations but the editor decides whether the article is
acceptable as it is or
Good point for mr. Pilatus!
Nevertheless, the recent articles in EM generally seem well researched and
they are worthwhile reading.
I haven't read the book on Boccherini's manuscripts yet, but Cambridge
Scholars Publishing and the book editor (Rudof Rasch) have a very good
scholarly reputation.
An academic on the day job, I recognize flaws inherent in the peer-review
process, that randomly sampling the wrong set from a population of potential
reviewers can have substantial subjective impacts on whether or not a thing
comes to be published. However, I do operate on both sides of the
How right you are. The problem with historic performance practices is that
most of what is written about them is nothing more than speculation and
conjecture.
Unfortunately people are not willing to admit this and will fight to the
death over things which will be forever unknown.
Monica
Indeed.
Eugene
-Original Message-
From: Monica Hall [mailto:mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:38 AM
To: Braig, Eugene
Cc: Vihuelalist
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar Summit
How right you are. The problem with historic performance practices is that
most of what
On 27/06/2014 15:38, Monica Hall wrote:
How right you are. The problem with historic performance practices
is that most of what is written about them is nothing more than
speculation and conjecture.
Unfortunately people are not willing to admit this and will fight to
the death over things
Eugene's information is misleading. _*Understanding Boccherini's
Manuscripts*_ edited by prolific Dutch Musicologist (U of Utrecht,
emeritus) Rudof Rasch contains only
a single article on guitar, namely one about Boccherini's still
problematic guitar quintets. The author writes
Dear Eugene,
Sorry. I did not intend to suggest you intended to mislead this
newsgroup by suggesting that Rasch's anthology was a collection of
essays (plural) from the Guitar Summit. At least one other reader and
I at first believed that from your message. The Boccherini
