Well, in my ultra-catholic town's church, seminarists play guitar during the mass imitating pop songs, which is really awful (I'd rather prefer David's b-guitar).
-----Mensaje original----- De: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] En nombre de Monica Hall Enviado el: jueves, 17 de diciembre de 2009 16:06 Para: wikla CC: Lutelist Asunto: [LUTE] Re: another day at the office 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 > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
