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Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 11:15:10 -0500
To: yarrowp@mscd.edu, Lily Rose <lilyrose@mail.sjcsf.edu>
From: Rex Deaver <rdeaver@swbell.net>
Subject: re: minstrel: Bardic, Period, Etc.
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At 11:18 AM 9/30/98 -0600, yarrowp@mscd.edu wrote:

>Which explains why the Welsh harpers attending the eisteddfodau were 
>required to learn the 24 measures of music, and had to demonstrate them 
>before advancing in rank.  

Precisely.  They demonstrated them.  Here endeth the lesson :-)

>And certainly explains why Robert ap Huw copied 
>Wiliam Penllyn's notebook word for word and symbol for symbol

He could easily have intended to preserve it...but his intention may *not*
have been to enshrine it.  

>>Documentation and research papers belong
>>firmly on the fringes. 
>
>Along with Boethius, Hildegard of Bingen, Anonymous IV, Jacob of Limoges, 
>Glareanus

Precisely.  That is where they were in Period.  Their influence was third
hand, second hand at best, on the popular music being performed in the
castles and towns.

Mathurin

--
"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
	 -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)


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