Raymond Horton wrote:
So McCreesh's "instinctive feeling" trumps the evidence of Bach's 12
voice choir, plus his preference for a larger one?
RBH
[snip]
Well, certainly! Isn't that what musicology is all about? Starting
with a preconception and then finding evidence to support it, while
ignoring other evidence? :-)
I find that anybody's pronouncements in the 21st century of what Bach
"really" intended back in the 18th century to be just so much pissing
into the wind.
They're ALL just suppositions since we can't know the tempos or the
tuning pitch that each performance was given at. And we certainly can't
know what Bach really envisioned in his mind as he worked with the
forces at his disposal. He might have wanted 50 or 80 and not just 16,
but the reality of the situation told him that the most he could hope
for might be (if he were really lucky) 16 so that's all he ever mentioned.
We just can't know, so anybody's pronouncement that their approach is
THE correct one is totally absurd.
But it keeps them in business, and of course generates its own
cottage-industry subset of musicologists whose sole job in life becomes
the repudiation of that stated pronouncement.
--
David H. Bailey
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