On Apr 9, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Bruno Correia bruno.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Absolute strict time was certainly unknown to them (musicians), we take
this idea for granted nowadays because of the mechanical age we live
in. Absolute precision is our game not theirsÂ…
*Absolute* precision is no
On Apr 10, 2013, at 1:37 PM, howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com wrote:
What they did with that approach was likely as variable as what we do.
By which I meant that one person's approach would differ from another's just as
we have different approaches today.
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Sorry I'm late to this discussion, but for what it's worth:
Well said, Howard. Dance and song are what it was all about, back then
(and now).
Some modern lutenists seem to habitually play out of time in a more or
less random manner in an attempt to be expressive rather than boring.
(In
Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Tempo, magnitude and precision.
Hello Tobiah,
Einstein established that time (and space) is affected by gravity.
Just think of travelling through a musical piece where its emotional
gravity constantly changes. It will speed up and down accordingly, but
the metre
: Monday, April 08, 2013 10:27 PM
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tempo, magnitude and precision.
Hello Tobiah,
How absolute metric time could have been acheived in the Renaissance?
The tactus was a constant pulse behind the rhythm, but it was an
organic motion not a strict
Dear Howard,
Who were they?
Absolute strict time was certainly unknown to them (musicians), we take
this idea for granted nowadays because of the mechanical age we live
in. Absolute precision is our game not theirs...
If they were dancers, they probably valued musicians who
On 4/9/13 7:09 PM, Leonard Williams arc...@verizon.net wrote:
In an interview before an audience of classical guitarists, Paul O'Dette
addressed (among other things) the issue of strict time in pieces like
recercari. His
comments were geared somewhat toward one's ability to play more
Hello Tobiah,
How absolute metric time could have been acheived in the Renaissance?
The tactus was a constant pulse behind the rhythm, but it was an
organic motion not a strict measured time like a metronome.
Actually, the only genre of music (which comes to my mind) that really
Hello Tobiah,
Einstein established that time (and space) is affected by gravity.
Just think of travelling through a musical piece where its emotional gravity
constantly changes. It will speed up and down accordingly, but the metre will
remain the same.
Just a thought.
Miles
On 2013-04-08,
Tobiah,
--- On Mon, 4/8/13, Tobiah t...@tobiah.org wrote:
I've heard it expressed by one professor, that
absolute metric time was desired during the Renaissance.
I very much doubt it. I've never met anyone who was alive during the
Renaissance to tell me what people desired in
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