Amen, brother Anthony. A bit off topic, perhaps, but my great frustration with GHB culture is the strict adherence to the "text" and how it's more likely that you will "win" if you simply phone it in rather than put anything of yourself or interpret a tune differently than Willie Ross (who wrote the tunes differently from how he played them, btw). In fact, the repertoire of tunes keeps getting smaller as competitors define it by learning only those tunes that they will win them competitions. Compared to that NSP culture is wide open.
-----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Robb Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 1:58 AM To: cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; gibbonssoi...@aol.com Subject: [NSP] Re: From notation to music It would be weird if that's what our music is about. The essence of this music, however, is that we hear the "stories", learn them, make them our own and reproduce them, not verbatim, but slightly differently as mood and memory serves. They have to become part of us; not something external interpreted from marks on a page. Once they are inside us it is very natural to share them with others. As aye Anthony To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
