On Jul 2, 2011, at 3:12 PM, David Tayler wrote:
2. I have never heard a recording of Dowland's Lachrimae consort
music
on instruments (violins, viols, lute) from 1603 (maybe there is
one,
would love to hear it)
Of these, the first is of course the most intriguing, but it is the
second that is the hardest problem to solve.
There's always the distinctly unpopular view that, given exact copies
of the instruments, and faced with exactly the same sheet music, and
using the exact same venues, as musicians in 1603, and even dressed
alike for that matter, feather in cap included, we today would solve
the musical problems of performance practice exactly as they did,
i.e. in a "varietie" of ways, all of which would have historical
validity.
D
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