Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po8.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05209; Fri, 9 Oct 98 11:10:16 EDT Received: from xkey.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22882; Fri, 9 Oct 98 11:10:14 EDT Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by xkey.com id IAA08865 for minstrel-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:01:01 -0700 Received: (from smtp@localhost) by xkey.com id IAA08859 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:01:00 -0700 Received: from wcuvax1.wcu.edu(152.30.1.2) by xkey.com via smtp (V1.3) id sma008857; Fri Oct 9 08:00:55 1998 Received: from WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU by WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU (PMDF V5.1-9 #24282) id <01J2RJ48XKRA939A5U@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU> for minstrel@pbm.com; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:00:48 EST Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 11:00:47 -0500 (EST) From: mn13189@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU Subject: Re: minstrel: filk, theft, taste and other points of argument In-Reply-To: To: Minstrel Mailing List Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-minstrel@rt.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 yarrowp@mscd.edu wrote: > >research into period music, which can be made more difficult when > >such changes are made. In this case, exact reproduction is valued. > > Agreed, but with a caveat: > Exact reproduction doesn't necessarily mean playing every note as written. > Musicians of our period were expected to ornament, and to create > variations. True. But I was thinking more along the lines of "recording for posterity" than performance. Aye, Eogan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send email to majordomo@pbm.com containing the words "unsubscribe minstrel". If you are subscribed to the digest version, say "unsubscribe minstrel-digest". To contact a human about problems, send mail to owner-minstrel@pbm.com