Wow. Howard probably has the most facile command of written (American)
English of anyone contributions I've read on this list. And I'm no
slouch when it comes to the lumpy run-on sentence, posted post-haste
and proofed in rueful retrospect. But now I'm confused. Did you mean
this?
"One can only speculate that Church officials acted upon the
assumption that,
although general audiences would PAY to hear early sacred music
performed well in
non-liturgical concert settings, there was no evident support by the
majority of
the Church's present and potential congregation for continued
liturgical use
of the antiquated repertory."
RA
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:12:34 -0700
> To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; howardpos...@ca.rr.com
> From: chriswi...@yahoo.com
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: (Not) OT: Music in church
>
> Howard,
> "They" refers to Church officials. I wrote informally without
> drafting. This wording would have expressed my meaning more clearly:
> "Church officials apparently came to the conclusion that, although
> general audiences were then beginning to demonstrate their
willingness
> to PAY to hear this music performed well in a secular milieu for
> purposes of aesthetic enjoyment, the continued practical usage of the
> identical or equivalent repertoire in a liturgical context would none
> the less be repellent to the majority of the Church's then-present
> congregation as well as a hinderance to the task of new member
> recruitment."
> Chris
> --- On Thu, 3/15/12, howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>
> From: howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com>
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: (Not) OT: Music in church
> To: "Lute Dmth (lute@cs.dartmouth.edu)" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 10:54 AM
>
> On Mar 15, 2012, at 5:56 AM, Christopher Wilke wrote:
> > Church officials apparently came to the conclusion that, although
> people where willing to PAY to hear this music performed well, they
> found it's use in the original context off-putting.
> Your definition of "people" changed in mid-sentence, because the
> audience for early music is not the same thing as "the people on
whose
> attendance in church the Catholic Church depends for its existence."
> Your sentence actually meant:
> "Church officials apparently came to the conclusion that, although
> thousands of persons, many of them non-Catholics, were willing to PAY
> to hear this music performed well, hundreds of millions of Catholics
> found its use in the original context off-putting."
> The change might not seem so paradoxical when your terms are defined.
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