dhbailey wrote:
John Howell wrote:
[snip]
I think that may depend heavily on who, exactly, you're talking about
in the '80s. Symphony trombonists, and those training them, may
indeed have thought in those terms, but it's a cinch that people in
early music were not, since most of us are looking at baroque and
classical practice from the starting point of the renaissance, and
not the high romantic period. And as the "authentic instrument"
concept moves ever forward in time, we're seeing both alto trombones
and rotary valve trumpets coming back into use. Not that there's
ever one and only one way to perform anything, but today's large bore
trombones didn't exist in the 19th century, let alone the 18th.
I haven't read the articles which Ray gave us links to, so perhaps
this covered in there, but is there any sort of "authentic instrument"
movement for the playing of Moravian trombone choir music?
I've only ever heard it on modern instruments and I really like the
sound, but I wonder how large a difference there would be if it were
performed on the smaller bore instruments common in the 18th and early
19th centuries.
I don't recall anything about Moravian instruments in these articles.
RBH
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