On Dec 16, 2007, at 2:10 PM, howard posner wrote: > David Rastall writes: > >> 400 years ago there was the "technical changeover" in lute >> technique. I think we can all agree on that. > > Even if we don't take issue with the words, the meaning may escape > us. For example, you probably don't mean that in 1560 every lute > and vihuela player played thumb-in and in 1650 every player played > thumb-out. You probably don't mean to deny that there were local > traditions or schools or individual players who played thumb-in in > 1750. But your words are susceptible of that meaning. I think the > best we can do is try to identify dominant trends and draw what > conclusions make sense.
Well, all right ;-) You have correctly discerned what I don't mean. Or don't mean to deny...(huh?) Thereby narrowing the focus down to what I do mean: that very close to the time of 1607, i.e. 400 years ago, there was a technical changeover in lute technique. I guess that means lute playing technique, lute building technique, lute composition technique, and lute painting technique. There were a lot of changes going on in music at that time: I shudder to think what you might tell me that I don't mean by that! :-) David R [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
