Re: Semantics (was State of Lutenet (was Size of the lute world))

2003-12-09 Thread Jon Murphy
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

Re: Semantics (was State of Lutenet (was Size of the lute world))

2003-12-08 Thread Doc Rossi
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