Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 09:43:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Heather Rose Jones <hrjones@uclink.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: minstrel: re: reading/reciting
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Russell Gilman-Hunt wrote:

> The lucid and remarkable Tangwystyl wrote:
> >Hmmm. Explain to me the distinction you make between "reading" and
> >"reciting" a poem, and I'll tell you how I feel about it. 
> 
> Well, I am happily able to attend Amergin's Revenge again this year,
> and I would like to perform more than once.  I have a couple of pretty
> good poems, and don't want to have to choose which one to "perform."
> I would like to perform them both.  But I have about 3 weeks until that
> date, and my other lives are, well, full, right now, and I worry that 
> I won't have the time to memorize both poems.  So I could "read" one

Ah, I see, "read" as contrasted with "recite from memory". Now we're on
the same road.

I must confess, that I'll _always_ prefer a recitation from memory to a
reading, all other things being roughly equal. But I'll always prefer a
reading to having the performer stop in the middle, fumble, or generally
get messed up. So it's a sliding scale!

Tangwystyl


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