----- Original Message ----- From: bill kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:36 am Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: contributions to this list
> unnhhhh ... arrrghhhhh ... uunnnhhhh ... > > seriously, i suspect there will be more contributing to the list > if those involved in the wider vihuela tradition were encouraged > to do so. the nuance and understanding of a player born and > raised in this tradition will surely have a positive, lively > effect on all - no matter what their vihuela might be called. At the heart, these Dartmouth lists are focused on early music and/or early instruments or reproductions of known early instrumental concepts. I don't think there's any resistance to discussion that intersects either old instruments (like chitarrino, gittern, citole, or anything else not-quite-vihuela of a known period provenance) or early music (like Le Roy, Mudarra, de Murcia, Canova da Milano, etc.). I suspect Mudarra on charango or post-Piazzolla Argentine tango on a deliberate reproduction of medieval citole iconography would probably draw a small amount of insightful response. Certainly, your early discussions of the conceptual origins of charango drew a great deal of conversation. It only stalled after it was continuously recycled and drifted from direct connection to extant early instruments. I really enjoy things like your Burns settings on charango, Bill, but discussion of them here isn't necessarily any more on-topic than most of what goes down on that wacky Yahoo "Fretted Friends" list. There are, of course, places where such chat is more at home. I don't discuss modern mandolin or guitar music here, although I am really involved with such stuff. Rather than sullenly stew upon what this list isn't, I carry those topics to where such chat is more at home. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
