[Bards] Question on performance judging forms

[Darius]

Ohhh one of my favorite questions  when the whole pitch and tone and enunciation cards come intoo play is "what did this sound like in the period it was/would havebeen written in?" In truth even the english spoken in London is not how it was spoken in the days of Queen Bess. Now doesn't that throw a wrench into your technical judging?

Darius
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Esther 
  To: Ansteorran Bardic list 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:25 PM
  Subject: Re: [Bards] Question on performance judging forms


  Comments to the point, and good, sharp points -- which beg the question, "Who judges the Judges?"

  I for one, can't tell you if someone was flat, off pitch, etc. I doubt an Elizabethan expert could accurately judge, on its specific and cultural terms, and Anglo-Saxon skald.

  And how much documentation is a judge supposed to be able to read, understand, and be able to tell if it's even good scholarship. BEcause there is a LOT of bad scholarship out there -- what are the standards of that?

  Heh. 

  Running the hell away now.

  Esther
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