Right Paul.
You say exactly what I was just going to post myself. West Gallery period
(broadly 18th-early 19th cent.) Church musicians, too, usually read from
dots and collected the tunes in MS notebooks. They were usually "respectable
working-class" men.
Philip
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gretton" <i...@gretton-willems.com>
To: <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 6:25 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: [BULK] Re: [nsp] file
It just occurred to me that I ought to have added:
To get an idea of the culture that fostered musical literacy even among
very
"ordinary" people, just read D.H. Lawrence, specifically Sons and Lovers.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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