Mr Rastall makes an excellent point.
At 08:31 PM 7/22/2007, you wrote:
>On Jul 22, 2007, at 8:35 PM, David Tayler wrote:
>
> > It used to be unheard of to use the main note trill in
> > later baroque music, but now it is relatively common; the next step
> > is the use of the above note trill in early baroque music as well as
> > in renaissance music, shaping & resolving the trill according to the
> > style of the time.
>
>I agree with you, but one has to ask: the style of which time
>exactly? If a certain Baroque figure used to be unheard of but is
>now in common usage, does that indicate that we "know better"
>nowadays, or are we simply operating according to the caprices of our
>own time (as people have always done in the past)? Sort of like our
>current version of "thumb-out." which is not at all like the thumb-
>out of most of the old paintings, but rather our own modern
>adaptation of thumb-under: a kind of thumb-sometimes-slipping-behind-
>the-fingers-and-the-rest-of-the-time-almost-parallel-to-them.
>
>DR
>
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