Re: ARCHLUTE CONTEST

2004-09-26 Thread Jon Murphy
To which we should add Abramovich of the vihuela. But the idea of vihuela as a vehicle of contemporary music is just preposterous. RT Therein lies an anomaly. What is contemporary music? By defining it as Britten or others it becomes past music. There is no problem with the idea of contemporary

Re: ARCHLUTE CONTEST

2004-09-25 Thread Roman Turovsky
>> What will it take for lutenists to take contemporary music for their >> instrument seriously, I wonder: > It is a very difficult question. Most contemporary lute music is just plain > silly. I make some exception for Alain's and Paulo's stuff, which is of > limited modernity. And that is good th

Re: ARCHLUTE CONTEST

2004-09-25 Thread Roman Turovsky
>> What will it take for lutenists to take contemporary music for their >> instrument seriously, I wonder: Should it come from the top - our virtuoso >> artists, like Ron McFarlane, or from the base? Should it come at all? >> Who will be our Segovia? >> Alain > We have 3 world class virtuosos, Ba

Re: ARCHLUTE CONTEST

2004-09-25 Thread Roman Turovsky
> What will it take for lutenists to take contemporary music for their > instrument seriously, I wonder: It is a very difficult question. Most contemporary lute music is just plain silly. I make some exception for Alain's and Paulo's stuff, which is of limited modernity. And that is good thing beca

Re: ARCHLUTE CONTEST

2004-09-24 Thread Roman Turovsky
ntually RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv >> The Contest has been extended to ARCHLUTE players >> RT >> >> >> >> ARCHLUTE CONTEST >> >> Dear Lutenetters and Friends! Here are the simple rules for this

Re: ARCHLUTE CONTEST

2004-09-24 Thread Alain Veylit
Roman Turovsky wrote: >The Contest has been extended to ARCHLUTE players >RT > > > >ARCHLUTE CONTEST > >Dear Lutenetters and Friends! Here are the simple rules for this contest in >composition. > >You have to write one single variation IN TABULATURE for Archlu