fwd: Re: minstrel: Looking for/ Many harps

[hrjones at socrates.berkeley.edu]

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 yarrowp at mscd.edu wrote:

> On the webpage question, I'll certainly consider it.  (I need a final 
> project for my Internet document design class.)  There are already a couple 
> of good sites out there on the Celtic harp.  What particular areas do 
> people feel haven't been sufficiently covered?

Well, I haven't done an extensive search to see what's out there, but
_usually_ what hasn't been sufficiently covered is a good, detailed,
hard-nosed, critical look at exactly what the pre-1600 material is, and if
there is reason to believe that some particular piece, technique, whatever
is plausibly pre-1600 even in the absense of direct evidence, exactly what
the reasons are for believing that (leaving the
rosy-romantic-traditionalist glasses off). I'm always looking for good
sources on SCA-period "Celtic" music, but the vast majority that you find
that sounded interesting tend to start out with the premise that modern
Celtic folk music is some sort of ancient unchanging eternal, and then
spend their time arguing for this position. I'd be very interested in
seeing something along this line that didn't set my critical alarms off
long before I got to the interesting information.

Tangwystyl

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Heather Rose Jones         hrjones at socrates.berkeley.edu
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