On Jan 24, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Stewart McCoy <lu...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> I > can understand the reticence of Ralf and Howard in accepting musical > allusions in the music of John Dowland. > Of course there will be the same > group of notes which appear in other compositions, a point Howard makes > well, but are we to throw the baby out with the bath water? The question is whether you have a baby or not. If four descending notes constitute a baby, youll have a population explosion on your hands. But dont let my reticence curb your enthusiasm. Anything is possible, and theres no way, unless Dowlands personal footnoted edition shows up, and anythings possible. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html