On Feb 27, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Stewart McCoy wrote: > People end up thinking that's all he had to say, that > he was eccentric, cranky, unreliable, to be treated with caution, etc. > Nothing could be more ridiculous. Mace was a player of the lute, viol > and theorbo, a composer, an enthusiast, and he certainly knew what he > was writing about. He could see that the music he had loved all his > life > - English music - was going out of fashion, and wanted to preserve as > much useful, practical information as he could, for future > generations, > i.e. for us.
None of that is inconsistent with being a crank. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
