Yes, of course this music is "formulaic and skinny". That's the whole point! To allow the 10 / 11 course to sing with its newly aquired bass register. To savour and bring out the emerging notion of "affekt". Its a reaction to the rich polyphony of the cinquecento. Meditative, poised, quite deep in its simplicity IIMSS, in spite of its formulaeicity :) G. On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Matthew Daillie <[1]dail...@club-internet.fr> wrote: On 14/12/2017 19:32, Tristan von Neumann wrote:
True, but compared to earlier styles, these seem kind of skinny, also oftentimes formulaic. Skinny and formulaic?? Have you been using Google translate again? -- References 1. mailto:dail...@club-internet.fr To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html