it occurs to me - as i listen - that they (eloy et al.) are having fun.
Good idea.
there are those, i'm sure, who will suggest that the son (sone) tradition
is uniquely american and is only obliquely related to music tradition of
the old(e) world.
Well I don't think that it is uniquely American or that it is only obliquely
related to music in the tradition of the old world.
It would be more appropriate to say that it is a Hispano-American tradition.
It was taken to the New world from Spain.
The term is used by Sanz in Instruccion de musica and there is or was a
guitar book of Corbetta's with the title Guitarra española, y sus
diferencias de sones] dedicated to Philip IV (of Spain)
but if you will only place yourself in the position of a music loving
émigré to the new found land (circa 1500 and something) who happens to
influence those around you to the extent that they pass on that influence to
succeeding generations ... it is not beyond the realms of probability that
the music produced in subsequent modern times relates directly to the music
that has passed before.
It may do, but that doesn't mean that it is the same.
this point ... this aspect, i suggest (sigh) relates to their instruments
as well.
what is it about a 4, 5 or 6 course new world instrument that (per forza)
excludes it from the old world repertoire?
We simply don't know whether these were around at that time or whether they
were used Spanish emigrees when playing the music they had imported.
Monica
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