MT wrote "Renaissance music is not Romantic music (in the context of the music history definition of the word) -the players role is often to detach one's ego from the performance and let the music speak for itself."
Oh- what treatise did you find the detached ego stuff from - seems to me that your ego needs to be there - or maybe you are not allowed to use your ego unless you are playing baroque music and all that "Doctrine of Affection's Stuff' I'd really hate to play Dowland or daMilano and break some sort of Early Music Mafia rule. God forbid!!!!! Sal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html