gary digman wrote: > It occurs to me there may be a touch of irony in this concern with > being "historically correct", We're the artists whose aesthetic we are > trying to embody concerned about being historically correct? If not, > is not our concern for historical correctness unhistorical?
Of course it's unhistorical. The question is whether it's musically worthwhile. "Historical correctness" is just a convenient but inaccurate shorthand for "an attempt to play the music as well as possible, which includes trying to understand (and, as nearly as is possible to determine, actually experience) how the people who created it would have expected it to sound." HP To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
