On 08/04/2014 06:12 PM, howard posner wrote:
On Aug 4, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Tobiah <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm interested in how they played, but I like what Jimmy Hendrix
did with Francis Scott Key
You mean John Stafford Smith, unless you’re admiring the way Hendrix
recited poetry.
I knew I should have looked that up! Ever since grade school, I've heard that
Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem. I guess I always assumed that he
wrote the music. What's funny is that there are a lot of people in the US that
could hum the entire tune but probably not make it through all of the lyrics.
Very few could recite any of the other verses.
at the same time. Maybe a little light chorus effect will spice up
a Francesco recording. I don't know, but I'm willing to try it.
I'd like to study all of the old methods of course, perhaps to
better know the soul of the music. So little was put into the
written music to tell us about tempo, strictness of tempo, dynamic
range, tone color variation, and general emotional intention, that
it almost supports the idea that things are open to interpretation
even if common practice at the time had an understood narrow
accepted practice regarding these things.
Of course it supports the idea. The different interpretations are
most of what we discuss here.
It's interesting that you would say that, because I've read this list for many
years, and I can't think of a thread off hand that had to do with the
interpretation
of the music. Once someone asked for help with the fingering of a particular
passage, but that was about it.
Our ears are in tune with a different set of practices now (at
least the general public). Perhaps if we looked up from
anthropology
It’s not anthropology. It’s the instruction manual. If you pay
thousands of dollars for an instrument (and millions of dollars for
strings), you should at least read it.
and viewed the old scribbles on parchment as a worthwhile resource
for music for our time,
We all view it that way. We fall so in love with the music that we
are willing to put up with an instrument that is, logistically and
practically, a royal pain in the ass, because we can make the music
come alive with it.
A task you could avoid if you played it on the lute. At least you
could explain it specifically instead of generally.
To hear you talk about the experience, I'll stick with the guitar,
thanks! $10 pack of strings every few months and I'm good.
Tobiah
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