SC - Are creations period?

[Karen Evans]

>>>>>>>>
Not all of the music got written down either. Does it follow that the
Star
Spangled Banner is a period piece--since someone could have sung it but
not
written it down?

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
<<<<<<<<

That is a little extreme for an example, don't you think?  Please
remember that there are people on this list who have heard your name
whispered in circles as almost god-like, and who can be easily hurt by
extreme examples like this one.

If you are talking about music, which is easier to pass from person to
person than cooking skills, I feel it is entirely plausible to my
style of re-creation to compose a ballad in a period style, and enter
it into a bardic competition, with documentation of existing pieces of
the same style.  I do not think it had to be written down to be valid.  

I feel the same way about cooking.  All the discussion right now is
about recipes that were written 200-300 years after my persona is long
dead.  It is all well and good for you to insist that creative cooking
and research and innovation on period style are not needed because of
the huge body of work available, but in my case I do not find it so. 
I have studied the archeological reports of the remains of foodstuffs
found in pre-Norman Ireland, but there is very little in the way of
cookbooks from that period to tell me what I want to know.  Are you
implying that I change my persona to match the existent cook books?

Lady Tyrca Ivarsdottir






 
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