On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote: 2. The important part of your useful Zarlino quotation, for me at least, was 'progressions absolutely intolerable in composition'. This clearly divides the matter into two seemingly polar camps: Performance Practice and Compositional Practice. I guess Zarlino was a composer?!
I don't think that polarization of that kind existed then any more than it does today. I think composers had certain expectations of singers, and it's our job as supposedly knowledgeable HIP musicians to know how to round out the music in the ways the composers would have expected. I think Zarlino meant that there isn't any difference between compositional practice and performance practice, except in the hands of poor singers. DR [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
