Doc and Roman,
I haven't seen the original, and am not going to search for it as Lute List
stuff comes to me in two places (a note to all on that at the end of this).
But reading the two comments it would seem that there is a semantic problem.
The Western world spent years settling on a set of
So any music not rooted in Christian semantics (like MacOSX rooted in
Unix)
is doomed to being not quite that memorable (see Pagan, Islamic, Judaic
etc., and don't hold you breath for a Ramadan oratorio).
I find this very strange, Roman - in fact I don't find it true at all.
Perhaps it is