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Subject: Re: minstrel: Cecily's ideas
To: lnktheriot@csi.com (Ken Theriot)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:36:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com>
Cc: minstrel@pbm.com
In-Reply-To: <01BDF481.E0F2A9C0.lnktheriot@csi.com> from "Ken Theriot" at Oct 10, 98 07:12:08 pm
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> "...are we Recreating or just creating?"  Well, it is the Society for 
> Creative Anachronism;

And that name was made up at the spur of the moment and doesn't
actually mean anything.

> In my experience, 
> especially with A&S competitions, it's the "creating" that gets shorted in 
> favor of the "recreating".

There is a lot of creativity in recreating, actually. There's also a
lot of creativity required to play properly ornamented music, too.

> About bards and bardic circles... I don't want to open this can again, but 
> "bard" is a good gaelic word and it means "poet", thereby implying WORDS. 
>  I'm not surprised your instrumental caught the audience off guard;

And in my kingdom, instrumental music is not unusual at all at a
"bardic circle". Perhaps this is a regional difference.

> The only way to hear 
> ONLY what you want to hear is to have invitation-only circles, and that 
> could get pretty lonely (Elitists of the World.... Please forward your 
> references for our consideration!).

Cariadoc manages to hear what he wants without making his circle
invitation-only. Nor is it lonely.

-- gb

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