On 5 Sep 2007 at 20:22, Ken Moore wrote: > "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we were just > trying to get the music performed > with the forces we had. > > > Yet, the mere suggestion that Bach was doing the > > same thing seems to be treated as heresy by those > > devoted to the crusade. > > Well, we've been brought up on the idea that he wrote (or rewrote) > music for the forces he expected to have next Sunday, and with > sufficient respect for his ability that we would have expected him > to write something different for larger ones.
I've heard that argument before, and I just don't think it means much. How can we know? Secondly, there's so much incredible variety within Bach's music itself, that I can't conclude that some of it would *not* benefit from larger forces, rather than performing it all with the same forces. I'm not making an affirmative argument here -- I'm just saying that there's so much complex music to look at and no really objective way to evaluate this kind of thing that I believe that such an argument becomes meaningless. -- 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
