It's probably just the leaves rustling, but I keep imagining I hear Bob Clair giggling under his breath and saying "never try to teach a pig to sing."
Michael Thames wrote: > In the context of what Ness is saying, and all his previous emails trying to > establish pitch notation as superior to tablature, for lutenists........I most > certainly stand by what I said. He's saying that historically, novices read > tab until they go on to higher forms of notation, He didn't say either of those things. > I suggest you go > back and re read what Ness said, I did, and I reproduced it for you, and told you to read it carefully. You still didn't understand. I suppose I can't solve your reading comprehension problems for you. The only reason I keep responding to this particular error on your part is that you're broadcasting a misrepresentation of Arthur's views, and I really don't want to read somewhere else that a noted musicologist said tablature was for novices and real lute music is written in staff notation. HP To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
