On Jan 24, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Dante Ferrara wrote: > My, my. We are an overheated lot tonight!
Not at all. It's midday here, and since it's the middle of one of those notoriously brutal Los Angeles winters, I'm hardly overheated. > As none of us has ever met Dowland, we'll never know whether he > thwacked his > strings harshly near the bridge for effect or gently picked the > strings near > the neck joint for a different effect. And who are we to say that > everything > should be played straight, identical in attack, tone quality and > the rest? No one here has ever said anything of the sort. > Reading between the lines, Perhaps best not to, since you wind up arguing over things no one has said > I reckon there are some lutenists who think every > lute tune between 1500 and 1700 was played without a shred of > humour or > personality. Just my personal view, but I don't think Forlorne Hope should be funny. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
