Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19981006231151.00a0ed64@mail.swbell.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 23:11:51 -0500
To: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com>
From: Rex Deaver <rdeaver@swbell.net>
Subject: Re: minstrel: Bardic, Period, and assorted rantings...
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At 08:15 PM 10/6/98 -0500, I wrote:
>1) Performer - voice/presence/the ineffable
>2) Poet/storyteller - capability to manipulate language
>3) Composer - capability to manipulate music
>4) Instrumentalist - capability to accompany and expand
>
>and another which some may disagree with;
>
>5) Professional - responsible to something more than self.
>School/patron/order/brotherhood/audience/god/king/country/etc.

But I missed one:

4a) Scholar - student of forms/history/tradition/etc.

And I want to add that I don't consider myself anywhere near mastery in
*any* of these areas.

Mathurin

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


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