On Jul 2, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote:
What Mathias meant is that self-expression did not become the
standard goal for all music
intil the 19th century.
Self expression certainly has existed ever since Froberger. Some,
like Zelenka, tried to control it, but it was coming out anyway.
To my way of thinking, any music is a form of self-expression, even
if all it does is to show audiences what crashing bores some
performers can be.
Okay, so assuming that the early-music performer is not interested in
self-expression, tell me if I have this right: the performer takes a
dispassonate view towards playing the music, and plays it so
perfectly that the music itself is able to move the audience to the
desired "affekt" the nature of which only the composer knows for
sure. Is that the point to "historical sound."
D
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