Indeed David, and precisely the point I made which launched this round of mails. Once we move away from considerations of historical evidence we quickly get into the realms of mere personal assertion to fit an individual's own preferences which may, or may not, be related to what the Old Ones expected.
The idea that, to take one composer at random, JS Bach would have preferred a modern Bechstein grand is, of course, not new and this sort of case was used from the earliest days of the revival of interest in his music in the mid 19th century. Whether or not he would have done is something we'll never know - what we do know reasonably well are the sorts of keyboard instruments he would actually have come across. Martyn --- On Tue, 12/7/11, David van Ooijen <[email protected]> wrote: From: David van Ooijen <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: What's the point to 'historical sound' To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 12 July, 2011, 15:13 On 12 July 2011 04:15, <[1][email protected]> wrote: > I think that, if the old masters had possessed effects, they would have used them. .. and would have written different music which would have utilised these effects. Which is the whole point about HIP: using the means the old had at their disposal to create a sound that could have been in their ears when they wre writing their music. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [2][email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] 2. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
