To: lindahl@pbm.com
Cc: minstrel@pbm.com
Subject: Re: minstrel: Bardic, Period, and assorted rantings...
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From: cley@juno.com (cynthia j ley)
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 20:46:18 EDT
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>I disagree, and I challenge you to prove your point. Only the people
>that _you_ note may be composers, but there were many celebrated
>non-composing instrumentalists throughout history, considered masters
>of performance. And there were masters of composition who couldn't
>perform their way out of a paper bag.

Witness some of the troubadours. They had the name and the fame, but some
of them couldn't sing or play worth beans, just write pretty poetry. They
hired retinues to pick up the slack.

>> Each aspect -- the bards, the skalds, the troubadours, etc. -- had 
>it's time and place, and each rose and fell.  And each covered but a 
>fraction of Period, this is true.  But collectively they represent a
*major* 
>fraction, not a minor one as you seem to imply.

I have some trouble with the word fraction; these were all highly
influential movements, both the results of their respective cultures as
well as shapers of it.


					Arlys


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