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At 02:19 PM 5/1/2007 +0200, Turpin wrote:
I don't come close to being qualified to speak as a "scholar" on this
issue, but I have spent a lot of time dancing to, and in some cases
playing, "folk" music from the Balkans and North Africa. I have always
been struck by how similar some of it is to late Medieval and Renaissance
music from further west in Europe. That's certainly reflected by the
instruments themselves. After hearing a particularly striking example of
this kind of convergence on NPR in a program produced at Indiana U, I tried
to find out more from the producer of the show, whose name I have
forgotten, and basically drew a blank. I got the impression from that
conversation that not much is known in detail about those
connections. What does seem obvious is that a lot of people were traveling
around and exchanging music and dance during that extended period. And
still are.
JB
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> > Indiana's Collegium was considered a very desirable ensemble in the
> > late-middle '60s by many very talented pre-professional students,
> > largely because its conductor, John Reeves White, produced quality
> > performances. In fact the Dean, in the '60s, had made a deal with
> > Noah Greenberg to teach part time at Indiana,
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>John can you tell us something of Thomas Binkley and his association
>with Indiana? There is scarcely a trace of this man in the net, but
>one hears that he was doing things at the time that would seem to make
>him a very influential figure - thinking here of his referring to north
>african traditional musis as evidence about the character of secular
>music in Europe in otherwise inaccessible times*
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>* I phrase that in a roundabout way because of discomfort with
>periodization schemes that date from the 18th abnd 19th centuries - I
>dont like saying 'late middle ages' (nor 'my girlfriend')
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>I must search with the question When such tendentious terms as
>'renaissance' & 'medieval' first used and by whom? One must be vigilant
>with words (they have histories too of course)
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>Intriguing how different disciplines/academic discourses uses different
>periodization schemes. In philosophy 'modern' begins with Descartes
>(though these days Aristotle can feel more 'timely')
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>The aim of periodization is heuristic, and, for the beginner
>especially, useful - but dont let it harden into the assumption of
>Knowwledge
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