--- Howard Posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bill kilpatrick wrote: > > > do you mean to infer that repertoire is the > deciding > > factor? > > The word you're looking for is "imply," and I'd say > the answer to your > question is no. Garry was not implying, but rather > assuming, that an > instrument useless for playing vihuela music is not > a vihuela.
i'd say that's an awfully narrow minded point of view, howard. playing this music on a charango - or ukulele if it comes to that - is not useless. nor are single voice melodies from more complex compositions played on whatever comes to hand. what is useless - of very little use to anyone - is to shackle a composition to a particular instrument, exclusive of any other, and insist on it being so for ever. you drove me to the dictionary - which is no bad thing - but, more to the point, am i to infer from your implication that 16th cent. vihuela music should never be played on any instrument other than the one the composer intended? if so, would you certify that as being historically informed? i wouldn't presume to instruct you but here's a brief lecture by james whistler which someone of your discernment might find to be a bit of a challenge: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa257/10_oclock.html he talks about painting but what he says applies to every art. That > is, whatever else constitutes the definition of the > 16th-century > vihuela, part of that definition is that vihuela > music can be played on > it. It's an essential part of the definition for > anyone interested in > playing music instead of playing word games. > outside of honolulu, is there a recognized repertoire for the renaissance guitar? - bill "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." - Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by Fra Joseph of San Buenaventura. go to: http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quieninvento.htm ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
