On Feb 17, 2006, at 6:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 17 Feb 2006 at 21:31, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 17.02.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
Would a tambourine in a Bach Orchestral Suite be that much of a
musical faux paux?
Good question. I tend to think that Bach wouldn't have had one, but
it's quite obviously possible to add it. On the other hand, Bach's
orchestral suites are imo not at all operatic, so perhaps it would be
a little weird?
I think it's important to ask three questions:
1. what would Bach have done?
2. what would Bach have preferred?
3. what would contemporaries, given Bach's music to perform, have
done?
Very good questions. The answers are:
1) He wouldn't have used a tambourine, even if he could find one in
Cöthen or Leipzig.
2) Q: Would you have preferred a tambourine in that, Herr Bach? A:
Whadda you, nuts?
3) They wouldn't--as they in fact did not--use a tambourine.
I hope we've cleared that up.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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