On 1 Jun 2006 at 0:15, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > I'd like to see an 18th century handwritten marking in a performing > part, where a performer has made a decision to not play the repeat, > and marked such in the part. This would indicate that there was a > liberality. If such markings do not exist I very much doubt that such > a liberal practice could possibly have been in place, this would imo > mean that at least as far as orchestras go any marked repeat would > always have been played, because the confusion otherwise would have > been disasterous.
I'd like to see markings of any kind in 18th-century sources. The ones that survive have precious few, and what ones are there tend to be later (based on my judgments of musical style in regard to issues like bowing). I have always suspected that the sources that survive are the ones that nobody used, since many such sources as originally copied/printed have errors that would make them impossible to perform from without annotation (e.g., missing measures or wrong notes in one or more of the parts). Given the lack of any markings at all, the absence of a marking saying to not take the repeats doesn't surprise me at all. If only we had such information about how musicians of the time actually performed the music! -- 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
