On Apr 25, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Aaron Rabushka wrote:
Is anyone acquainted with the musical use of anvils, and their possible dynamic range? Every instance I can thing of is loud, and I noticed that Wagner does not give any dynamic's for Mime's hammering in Siegfried. Is anyone here familiar with any quiet uses of them?
Can I take this opportunity to vent a pet peeve about the anvil chorus in Verdi's Trovatore?
The scene features a troop of gypsies. Among the things gypsies were known for in that historical context is jewelry. The anvils they carry would be the small jewelers' anvils one uses for crafting jewelry.
And yet, in so many productions they are shown with dozens of big forging anvils, banging on them with giant mallets.
Gypsies are also known for being nomadic. Does it never occur to the director how absurd it is to thing they'd be lugging around those 100- pound monsters in a nomadic lifestyle?
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