On 14 Feb 2006 at 22:35, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 14.02.2006 David W. Fenton wrote: > > I would say that Baroque music takes me longer to enter than > > Classical > > Really? I have always found the opposite. Classical music, certainly > when it gets to the end of the 18th century, seems too have so much > more in dynamics, articulations etc. And once it gets to piano music > things can get really complicated.
Well, I guess the main reason I find the Classical easier is because I'm generally working from sources that are much easier to deal with, printed editions or clean MSS, while my work with Baroque sources has mostly been from photocopies of cramped and complicated MSS. Some of the Charpentier I've done was just a huge amount of work, particularly in the text setting (which is quite haphazard in the MS, and would be impossible if the texts involved were not known from other sources). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
