On 1/15/07, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, easily 1/3 or more of the musicians available for massed instrumental performance might not be listed as being paid to play in the "orchestra."
That is true--but that just supports the notion that orchestras were the purview of the rich in the 18th century. A butler could join in on a violin, if he had the talent, it didn't cost his patron a single extra dollar. BUT, ff you were a free lance composer, or trying to put together a series of orchestral concerts, you weren't so lucky. You HAD to pay that musician. Payroll records weren't the only way to figure out how many musicians performed at concerts, the number of parts tells us how many played as well. (Of course as Joshua Rifkin's research as proved, not everyone agrees. Kim Patrick Clow _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
