Dear Professor Willett,
Thank you so much for your detailed and intellectually stimulating
post. Thank you too for your apt psychoanalytical observations concerning
my passionateness, shamelessness, and choreographic indulgence. I would
only mention, for the sake of historical accuracy, I have never mentioned
nor used a trumpet. My pastoral instuments, emotionally, intellectually,
and historically, are the reed and orpharion. The two are erotically
slanted in their theorizations in sixteenth-century books on musical
theory (c.f. Barley's *Book of Tabliture* and its instructions as to
stroking the belly of the orpharion) and translations of pastoral
(c.f. the "reed" in the 1588 traslation of Theocritus's Idylls and
fraunces' translation of Virgil's second eclogue). You should be able
to "reed" about those in one of the chapters of teh rhetoric and dream
volume.
choreographically,
Dr. Shirley Sharon-Zisser
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> 8.I am personally tired of reading daily posts from the passionate
> rhetorician in which she indulges the most shameless PR for her
> particular critical favorite.Enough is enough. The name and the
> literary slant have been trumpeted, though the trumpet is hardly an
> appropriate musical instrument for a nymph dancing about the land
> of Renaissance pastoral.
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