Johannes Gebauer wrote:
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
With the same reasoning one would then expect an instruction to do repeats
- in slow movements
- in Menuets
- in sonatas
I don't know honestly. I do know that Christopher Hogwood insists on observing da capos in movements other than Minuets, so I assume he knows of source materials that would maybe cover those circumstances. I only think Minuets came up in Erica's citation because that seemed to be what everyone was discussing in terms of ABA topic.
Earlier, you offered to write to Mr. Hogwood, maybe he can provide some illumination on this topic. While I have seen some debate about some of Mr. Hogwood's conducting or musicological decisions (e.g. no use of a harpsichord continuo in Haydn symphonies), I've never seen any such debate on Mr. Hogwood's honoring da capo repeats.
Johann Mattheson's "Der Vollkommene Capellmeister" (and other writings from the Renaissance and Baroque) deal a lot with the topic of performing and composing music as rhetoric. One of rhetorical devices that Mattheson comments on is repetition, taking his cue from Quintilian's and Cicero's books on rhetoric. Judy Tarling has written *wonderful* book on this subject. I believe a chapter or sub-section that deals with repetition, with a few quotes from the classical sources as well as Mattheson, and Quantz.
Thanks,
Kim Patrick Clow
"Wagner is better than he sounds."
~ Mark Twain.
~ Mark Twain.
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