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Subject: Re: minstrel: Bardic, Period, and assorted rantings...
To: jshewkc@cyclops.pei.edu (J. Michael Shew)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:07:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com>
Cc: minstrel@pbm.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980930215831.15893A-100000@cyclops.pei.edu> from "J. Michael Shew" at Sep 30, 98 10:19:03 pm
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> However, I am sure everyone can agree, sometimes, despite the best of
> intentions, the period stuff will not fly.

Actually, no: there is "period stuff" which happens to be similar
enough to modern stuff (sing along choruses, no weird modalities, etc)
that it will fly even with a crowd who's used to a steady diet of 19th
and 20th century folksongs. There are also plenty of period stories
which are short enough and have enough of a point or moral that a
modern audience will find them easily accessible.

> 	I find this argument about period/non-period confusing.  If you
> are only doing contests, or only doing feasts, I could understand it.  But
> in order to grow, you have to do both.

I find this claim confusing. I can't imagine why you would NEED to do
non-period pieces, in the SCA, in order to grow. I also can't imagine
why you would think performing for a contest, a feast, or at a bardic
circle would be any different, except the audience at the 3rd is
perhaps the most motivated and attentive.

-- gb

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