No, some music has no self-expression whatsoever. none intended either.
Try Hasse.
There is a fair amount of unitended self-expression in a lot of Baroque
music.
There is occasional subversive self-expression in it too.
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: "David R" <[email protected]>
To: "Roman Turovsky" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Mathias Roesel" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 2:52 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: What's the point to 'historical sound'
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
To get on or off this list see list information at
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
