I can't believe this - it is all nonsense. There is a difference between
sacred songs which may be dance like and intended to be performed in a
domestic setting and music to be performed in a liturgical context.
The problem with so many performers today is that they know little about
religion and care even less about it. This is the paradox with the "Early
Music Movement" .I guess that very few of you actually believe what you are
singing about or know anything about the context in which the music was
intended to be performed - or what it stands for.
Even in Spain and the New World where the guitar certainly was used to
accompany villancicos etc at Christmas and Corpus Christi it had its own
separate role.
It is just so corny to add the baroque guitar to everything in this way.
You are like a lot of kids with a new toy - look at me doing fancy strumming
on my guitar.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "wikla" <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "David van Ooijen" <davidvanooi...@gmail.com>
Cc: "lutelist Net" <Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:13 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: another day at the office
Very, very nice David! And nice kind of an office you have... ;)
And the baroque guitar really suits and adds up to certain parts of the
Maria vespers by Monteverdi. No question of that instrument being
"inappropriate" to the sacred music of M's time and place! There are lots
and lots of sacred songs of those days that really are swinging dances! We
northern protestants just spoiled the joy of the music of the counter
reformation... Just some severe hymns sung badly in unison... And then
later the overly "serious" and un-joyful "passions" by a certain German
late baroque master, who since then have been raised as kind of semi-god
of
music... ;-)
All best,
Arto
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:39:18 +0100, David van Ooijen
<davidvanooi...@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbihntVfdKo
and two others:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITNFt5Si48I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DoioUweBLs
David
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