> -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of Roman Turovsky > Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 6:31 PM > To: terli...@aol.com; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Liuto forte > > >OR suitable for a guitarist who is NOT sick of the guitar repertoire! ... > >and is happy with finger >nails. > > ALL guitarists with brains get sick of their repertoire, eventually.
Considering myself to have a somewhat functional brain, I can't quite buy into that one. I do see some point in the contention, but the point fails in trying to make a universal argument of it. Not all classical guitarists only indulge the standard repertoire that is fed to the masses ad nauseam. >From the 1500s forward, guitar repertoire is so vast--and still being augmented at such a pace--that nobody could possibly digest it *all* to know enough to be sick of it all. I also don't see how it's substantially different from any other instrument's repertoire, other than that more of it is still being generated than for instruments considered (rightly or wrongly) to belong exclusively to historic repertoire like lutes, viols, lirone, etc. Enjoy...whatever you enjoy! Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
