On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:35 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 3:28 PM -0400 4/16/05, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Certainly. But Rachmaninoff's use of the convention was by then no more traditional than Hindemith's use of the viola d'amore.
???????????? Hindemith directed the Yale Collegium Musicum, and was a violist. Why would he not be interested in viola d'amore, and what's wrong with that? It's all part of the rediscovery of early instruments, techniques and performance practice.
Of course it is, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. My point was merely that such things are not *traditional*--they're a conscious resurrection of a past usage, and intended from the getgo to be perceived as exceptional.
Another modern use of the viola d'amore points this up particularly well: Janacek's use of it in connection with the uncanny, immortal Emilia Marty in _The Makropoulos Case._
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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