note: I am resenbding this message becasue it got caught in spam traps - wayne
Dear Anton Hoger, I sent you a private email trying to be helpful and was therefore a bit surprised to find you didn't reply to me but instead fired off a touchy general response! And I really don't know what you mean by 'insinuations' - insinuations of what? Believe it, or not, I was simply trying to helpfully suggest that you might save yourself a lot of time and effort if you read pieces directly from the staff notation and also learned figured bass rather than always having to employ an intermediate stage of written intabulation. Now you raise the matter, generally I do think that most reasonably competent players should be encouraged to make their own arrangements/transcriptions in their own style and, as I say, to be able to play reasonably fluently from staff notation without always having to rely on a modern intabulation made by a third party. Similarly, I think it good for lute players to be encouraged to become fluent in Italian tablature without needing to rely on transcriptions into the French system. The reliance on other peoples' arrangements and transcriptions can, in my view, be restrictive and effectively close much of the enormous wealth of music from all ages. I also believe that the process of making ones own arrangements/transcriptions is thoroughly enjoyable one (and really not 'rocket science') and is a personally creative way for individuals to discover original music and repertoire new to them. And, I might add, to create something which ideally matches their individual technical capabilities, instrument(s) and musical tastes. MH -------- Original message -------- From: Anton Hoeger Date:2016-08-03 03:24 (GMT-05:00) To: List Lutelist Subject: [LUTE] insinuations > > Hi everyone, > > Martin Hogson wrote: > > Dear Anton Hoger, > > Have you ever considered learning to play from figured bass? This would save you much mundane work making these unnecessary transcriptions/arrangements. > > MH > > > Yes of course! But how do you bring my Renaissance Intabulations with Dimunitions in relation with a figured bass? > These one has nothing to do with the other one! > On the other side I have so far only very few Earlybaroque figured Bass edited pieces. Exactly this Arrangements may be interesting for the interprets. As a suggestion or such ways. > My 100000 downloads and thousand credits show a different image than Your: ...making these unnecessary transcriptions!......... > Please stop these insinuations, if you have no idea. > > > Anton To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html