On Feb 17, 2006, at 6:07 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 17 Feb 2006 at 15:21, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Feb 17, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
how authentic is improvised percussion to Baroque music?
It's authentic where it is known to have been used (as in Handel's
Music for the Royal Fireworks)--and not elsewhere!
Is that a joke?
No.
We know some about performance practice, but very little.
On the contrary, we know a tremendous amount about performance practice.
From what I
remember there are some vague statements of the order of "percussion
instruments would be used with this kind of music" but nothing
notated and very little documentation of particular performances.
We have personnel lists. We have payment records. We have travellers'
accounts. We have engravings of individual ensembles and individual
occasions. We have musicians' letters and diaries. We have
composition/accompanying methods. We have old dictionary/encyclopedia
entries. This is not "nothing" and it is not "little."
But we don't know much about appropriate performance for lots of
notated music, either (e.g., Parisian organum).
Perfectly true. But the question raised was specifically about
*Baroque* music, no?
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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