Dear Matanya, Thank you for your answer.
On Thursday, Dec 4, 2003, at 19:43 Europe/Warsaw, Matanya Ophee wrote: > At 06:14 PM 12/4/2003 +0100, Jerzy ZAK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear Matanya, >> ... But time showed that some people prefer wasting time - ours, >> mine, on >> personal quarrels. > This last quarrel was not personal. I avoided the thread until Albert > Reyerman had a chance to defend himself ... The rest of > this ugly affair is in no need of being mentioned. I understand your point and am the last to continue in that spirit. >> ... What are the discoveries of Francesco Castelfranco, and other >> recent >> discoveries? > ... The subject has been mentioned here before, mostly by Arthur Ness > who will be better informed about this than I am. > > As for other discoveries, it is only a simple postulate that argues > that we > have no way of knowing what it is we do not know. New things come up > for > air all the time. This is obvious. I was personally a wittness of more then one ''discovery'' or ''rediscovery'' of a lute MS in Poland and all this happend outside of RISM (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales) network and operations - I'll reftrain from commenting on that organization. All this happens by chance or through someones often ''controversial'' activity... > For example, many years ago, I photographed in Leningrad., when it was > still Leningrad, a lute manuscript in one library. ... One of these > days, when I am in a better mood and > when I can deal with lute music and lutenists directly, without regard > to > my so-called reputation, I may investigate this further. Don't cry Mataniy, don't wait for a better mood - lutenists are all the same as guitarists, flutists, programers and bankers. Find a distance, don't get involved in particulars... Tell us what's on the film and either publish it (perhaps not in USA or Switzerland, if you don't want to complain about sales) or leave to someone for a Ph.D. elaboration, if that's better destination. Don't hide, we are looking forward. As to the situation in either Mascow or St Petersburg archives, it's a mine of new or forgotten things - I asure you! I can publically say only so, I'm not of the power of Christoph Wolff who could have done a mega-move of the whole one of the old Berlin archives from Kijev back to Berlin - few years ago! Does anybody know if the catalogue, as promised, is already available? Ears up, Matanya (as we say here), find that film! Yours, Jerzy
