David Cozy asks:

>... I find myself uncertain what, in the context of musicianship,
>"intellectual" might denote.  I am certain I have seen the word used to
>describe other musicians, so it must be shorthand for something, but
>what?Any ideas?

In Portuguese we denominated "cerebral" (brainly, mindly) an artist
"without feeling".  Perhaps "intellectual" have this meaning, too:
brainly, mindly, mental, extremely technical.  Another side there is
artists with sensibility, sentimental, sensual, emotional, impulsive
playing.

Edson Tadeu Ortolan
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