[LUTE] Re: [LUTE]Folk Process was: Saturday quote: Sean nos for St. P

2012-03-21 Thread tom
> I think in the case of a lot of "folk songs" published at this time > they are more than often completely new and composed in the "style of" > or often even a complete invention of a tradition. I won't dispute this, but I would add to it: There have been many during the course of the 20th cent

[LUTE] Re: Saturday quote: Sean nos for St. P

2012-03-21 Thread Mark Wheeler
I think in the case of a lot of "folk songs" published at this time they are more than often completely new and composed in the "style of" or often even a complete invention of a tradition. There are number of recent book that deal with this inventing of folk traditions, there was a sort of patr

[LUTE] Re: Saturday quote:

2012-03-21 Thread Sean Smith
Would that make Phalese the Napster or the Pirate Bay? A lot of parallels as I see it between then and now. An exploding technology to take advantage of exploding music trends and a growing middle class (well, until recently...) to grow the cultures in. On Mar 21, 2012, at 2:13 PM, howar

[LUTE] Re: Saturday quote:

2012-03-21 Thread howard posner
At an LSA seminar, Isabelle, whose last name I don't quite remember and could never spell, remarked that Attaignant was the "Mel Bay of the 16th century." On Mar 21, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Sean Smith wrote: > Ach, dear old Pierre Phalese. We'll always wonder about the back story. As > anthologies go

[LUTE] Re: Saturday quote: Sean nos for St. P

2012-03-21 Thread Sean Smith
Ach, dear old Pierre Phalese. We'll always wonder about the back story. As anthologies go, they're a wonderful pool to draw from. When we see the other books he pulled from and what he thought would be worthy of further desemination, upgrading and elimination he starts to show us much mor

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Ne Anthony Bailes CD

2012-03-21 Thread Mathias Rösel
Dear Anthony, Thanks for this. Your response makes obvious, though, that I didn't make myself sufficiently clear, as you address issues that I didn't and wouldn't argue about. Not only later German baroque lutenists were indebted to French lutenist's experimentations, the whole of Europe was. No

[LUTE] Re: Saturday quote: Sean nos for St. P

2012-03-21 Thread Ron Andrico
Thanks, Tom and Mark. Forgive the off-topic nature of this but we actually saw the credit to Herbert Hughes many years ago, and understand that Hughes was a collector and assembler of anthologies who was rather aggressive about taking credit for whatever he could. In the US folk mu

[LUTE] Re: Saturday quote: Sean nos for St. P

2012-03-21 Thread tom
> We offer a video of Donna singing an Irish ballad that may or may >not be old. [1]http://wp.me/p15OyV-lK R&D Beautiful! Published by Boosey & Hawkes, 1909. Irish Country Songs Collected in Donegal by poet Padraic Colum and Herbert Hughes Tom Draughon Heartist