On Nov 28, 2007, at 3:37 PM, vance wood wrote: > The "We" we are discussing happen to be a group of Historically > Correct Mavens that look at the issues of historical correctness > more closely than we look at the practicality of the things at hand
Hi Vance, Certainly we've all been known to do that at times. But it seems to me (the Great Disclaimer) that generally speaking (another Great Disclaimer) most HIP afficionados will take historical purism as far as it takes to satisfy their intellectual curiosity, and beyond that will do exactly what musicians have always done: whatever's necessary to make good music. In other words, every musician starts with the specifics of his or her chosen instrument, and will sooner or later move on to the general considerations of "good music" in whatever guise they choose to play it in. That's my belief anyway. This whole discussion about 8-c lutes seems to be two-pronged: our sense of historical correctness vs. our personal musical preferences. I guess my point is that I don't see those two things as incompatible. David Rastall > ; like the number of strings on our respective Lutes. If I could > get a decent sound out of a wooden cigar box strung with rubber > bands I might be tempted to play the thing, lacking anything more > musical to accomplish the task of playing a tune thought not > suitable for the instrument at hand. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Rastall" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Stewart McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Lute Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:37 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Is 8c really the standard? > > >> On Nov 26, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Stewart McCoy wrote: >> >>> Do we have any evidence of a 16th- or 17th-century lutenist >>> refusing to play a piece, because his lute had one or two courses >>> more than necessary? >> >> I would say yes, we do. The evidence being that we ourselves do it >> today. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
