On 31.05.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
Instructional manuals?
Treatises on performance styles of the period?
Diaries or letters that review a performance?
There are many possible explanations why it would be discussed in sources.
No, Kim, I think you are missing the point here. If repeats were always
done, than why even mention that they are done in Da Capos. With the
same reasoning one would then expect an instruction to do repeats
- in slow movements
- in Menuets
- in sonatas
etc. The fact that this needs mentioning in the first place seems to
indicate that there were either some people who did not do the repeats
in Da Capos, or it was generally treated liberally.
What are treatises on the performance styles of the period?
Why would a letter mention the obvious? You wouldn't write in a letter
that the orchestra tuned to an a, would you? Unless there was anything
unusual about it, of course.
Johannes
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