ANST - A&S "skill ranks"...

[Kateryn R Heathryge]

On Wed, 24 Dec 1997 19:13:39 -0600 Michael Peters <shdwstel at telepath.com>

>
>
>Advance the craft? (Time to irritate many of the craftspeople)
>    We are told give recognition to our wonderful artisans. WE DON'T
>HAVE ARTISANS.We have some HIGHLY skilled technicians. We don't create
>new things. We reproduce crafts and designs ALREADY in existance. ANY
>good technical artist or craftsman (non-SCA) can turn out 85% of what 
>we
>see as Laurel work. Perhaps this is why to be a Laurel it is NOT just
>mastery of a craft.
>  Yes, I know the WORK involved in making a totally new knotwork 
>design,
>but we are simply working in a form with strict preset requirements on
>what we can or cannot do.

I apologise for the lateness of this two pense, but my lord left on
cruisade just after Christmas.

As a musician I really have to take exception to the concept that just
because we work from narrow strictures we are therefore not being
creative.  The more formal music styles, like motets (my pardon for lack
of examples, but I haven't unpacked all my texts yet) are highly
structured ie one voice carries the melody and teh others have assigned
roles above and below it with rules on movement, etc.

Writing within these rules is an act of extreme creativity.  The hardest
composition I have had to do was counterpoint.  I am in no hurry to try a
five voice madrigal, for while it is not as formally stuctured, it is
fraught with its own perils compounded by the number of lines that must
work together.


Kateryn Heathrydge
Three Rivers, Calontir
heatherford.manor at juno.com
c/o Grimfells Witness Relocation Program
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