[78-L] Canadian music

[Joe Scott]

"About the only other country I can think of in the Western World whose music has such a hard time penetrating out through its borders is Holland. I'm sure Holland has produced some fine music"Nicolas Vallet fled France for Amsterdam for religious reasons, and I can certainly recommend Paul O'Dette's CD of his lute music to anyone who likes lute music at all. Incidentally one of the tunes on it uses exactly the same chord pattern as in early blues music (whereas most of the tunes sound far more like English lute music). I've come across more blues-like chord progressions in old European folk-influenced "classical" music from France than from any other region there.Verhulst, Diepenbrock, and Roentgen aren't worth worrying much about imo and iirc probably not Sweelinck either.Joseph Scott