I sympathise with you!
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "jelmaa" <jel...@gmail.com>
To: "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "Lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: another day at the office
I think it is important to realize that the use of a baroque guitar
here is the _conductor's_ whim, not David's.
As a professional basso continuo player you have to be quite a
diplomant to navigate between conductors' ideas and your own
knowledge of historically informed performance practice.
Jelma van Amersfoort (who's had to deal with this thing both as a
coductor and as a continuo player)
On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Monica Hall wrote:
to which I would respond - is there any authority for David's
proposition other than his own whim?
Monica
----- Original Message ----- From: "howard posner"
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To: "Lutelist >" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:22 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: another day at the office
I think David's question was whether there was some authority for
this proposition other than yourself.
On Dec 17, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Monica Hall wrote:
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.
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