That is the central theme of an enjoyable and exuberantly argued book by a British historian, Tom Holland, who combines sound scholarly credentials with a gift for storytelling on a magisterial scale.
Yet when English profs and graduate students teach these materials in the classroom, and especially when we write about them in academic journals or scholarly books, we sound different.
It is better to correctly use the words you know than to misuse the words you do not know in an attempt to sound scholarly.
I'd heard people say that the project sounded scholarly and "difficult".
But Slavic Soul Party's raucous concerts are anything but scholarly, mixing the Balkan sound with funk and jazz.
If I say they were "alive" for him (the usual cliché), then I make him sound more scholarly, and perhaps more imaginative, than he was.
50 Foor Wave Bug (4AD) Thanks to the Pixies reunion, there's been a scholarly interest in the sound of Boston in the late Eighties recently.
Not everything in the collection sounds so scholarly.
Second, if you cannot sensibly plan on other grounds, you should at least make sure that what you do is sound in intellectual, scholarly and pedagogical terms.
Scholarly theories and approaches to instrumental sound were constantly in flux, so if you play recordings of Renaissance ensembles from the 1950s, '60s and '70s on, you can easily identify which decade they came from.
Admittedly these sounds were based on scholarly guesswork, as traditional Hebraic melodies were transmitted orally and rarely written down.
