At 7:32 PM -0500 1/28/07, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
If you want to open a can of worms (or as Dennis Collins would say "another kettle of fish"), some suggest that such timpani notation markings were meant to be played as rather festive embellishments, including physical displays with the drummer waving the beaters in the air, etc. That makes a lot of sense to me because many princely court orchestras, their timpani player was usually from a military attachment or guard unit assigned to the court.
And it makes sense to you that military drummers would be particularly flamboyant in their performance than court musicians? I honestly don't see why you would think that. Of course I realize that you're picturing the Scots bass drummers with bagpipe bands, with their twirling stick choreography, but I have trouble projecting that onto historical military units, when the military has always emphasized discipline.
Besides, you can't really keep a roll going with one stick while you twirl the other. But I've been wrong before.
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