On 5 Sep 2007 at 11:46, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > I'll just stick to my desire to hear the music performed in the forces > it was played with and with historically informed techniques. I'll let > others have the other fun parts of that time, but definitely NOT for > me
While I'm all for that, there is a major philosophical problem when it comes to the issue of us not being authentic listeners. We simply can't hear the music the same as they did, even when we replicate the forces of performance as closely as possible. Every performance of old music is metaphorically a transcription, I think, and this is something we should keep in mind when evaluating historical practices. That is not to say that I don't want to hear the music with historical instruments and using historically-informed practices, it's just that I know we can never get the same meaning, however closely we may try to replicate the mere sounds. -- 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
