From: NO_SPAM_asale@ft.newyorklife.com   
      
   On 27 Dec 2006 21:52:27 -0800, "LidsvilleNine"   
    wrote:   
      
   >> Dav Vandenbroucke wrote:   
   >> I have a CD of Christmas music which includes a rendition of "Joy to   
   >> the World" played as a jig.  It got me to wondering if there was a   
   >> technical term for transforming a piece in this way.  Is there?   
   >   
   >Some would refer to this as "interpretation" or "treatment", although   
   >neither term really allows for extreme change. Possibly it would be a   
   >"new arrangement".   
      
   I wonder.  It's common enough, though.  "Variations on a Theme by..."  I've   
   never heard any term except the original title.  A Beethovan treatment (&   
   destruction) of Scottish folksong - or a Montavani (string orchestra)   
   treatment of much of the Beatles - or a 19th century chantey treatment of a   
   contemporary show tune or cowboy song - or a Jeanie Robertson treatment of   
   a bawdy Irish music hall song or, for all that, a Jeanie Robertson   
   treatment of a Jean Ritchie mountain song - or a Simon & Carbunkle   
   treatment of a Carthy treatment (of an AL Lloyd treatment?) of a 17th   
   century bawdy broadside.   
      
   Musicians gotta get their ideas somewhere and theft is the most common.   
      
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