Message-Id: <199810051952.PAA23243@xkey.com>
Subject: Re: minstrel: Nature of Bardic Competitions
To: flieg@socrates.Berkeley.EDU (Fred)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:52:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com>
Cc: minstrel@pbm.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19981005191423.0121d390@socrates.Berkeley.EDU> from "Fred" at Oct 5, 98 12:14:23 pm
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>     Imho -- documentation is to show the judge that the competitor
> knows what is period; presumably the judge already knows.

You must use gods as judges out there; over here, we presume that
judges are human beings, who might not already know all there is to
know about every sub-genre of early music. You might also have a
competitor who has a novel theory about some aspect of authentic
music; in that case there's no way the judge could be familiar with
the theory. That's a reason why you might want a 300-page thesis to
back up the short summary.

But the purpose of documentation in a competition may be to teach.
That's up to the organizer of a competition, isn't it?

>     Imho -- we have _way_ too many competitions.

I agree. 

-- gb

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