Isn’t Bratsche Italian also, just in a Germanized spelling? The full Italian
term is Viola da Braccio as contrasted to Viola da Gamba (arm versus leg).
Why not go with the Swedes: altfiol?
A month ago I bought myself a bratsch (the Danish spelling) just for the fun of
it. My repertory is very small, but then it is largely out of tune.
Klaus in DK
--- On Fri, 12/18/09, Kurt Gnos kurtg...@bluewin.ch wrote:
From: Kurt Gnos kurtg...@bluewin.ch
Subject: AW: [Finale] TAN: Is Bratschen Obsolete?
To: finale@shsu.edu
Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 12:54 AM
Bratsche, that is...;-) Bratche is an
americanism...;-) as is Herr
Docktor (correct: Herr Doktor)
Bratsche in german is just a synonym for viola which is
italian,
actually. It is still in use, despite of all the
Bratschen-Witze (viola
jokes) that are around. I read a lot of American
literature, and quite a lot
of german that is misspelled (missspelled?) (I don't
know, but this would
be using the new german orthographic rules...;-))) Never
mind...
Just my 2 cent(imes)
Kurt
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Von: finale-boun...@shsu.edu
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Im Auftrag von
Florence + Michael
Gesendet: Freitag, 18. Dezember 2009 00:39
An: finale@shsu.edu
Betreff: Re: [Finale] TAN: Is Bratschen Obsolete?
On 16 Dec 2009, at 17:36, John Howell wrote:
At 5:56 PM -0800 12/15/09, Ryan wrote:
Is the term Bratschen for violas obsolete in
German? Would it be
better to
use Violen?
If you like, I could ask on the OrchestraList.
Or the ViolaList.
I'm certainly not aware of any change from the
traditional
terminology, which is embedded in every
German-published score I've
ever seen, but there's no reason why I would be.
I would think that there might be confusion between
the term for
alto-tenor violin and that for viola da gamba if that
change were
made, but then there's already confusion with the term
viol in
English, which mean viola da gamba but could be taken
to mean bass
viol (i.e. string bass or double bass or bass
violin).
There's no confusion and I have seen Violen or Viola in
many
German scores. If you look at lists of musicians on web
pages of
German orchestras you'll see both Bratsche and Viola
being used
(I just checked Mannheim, where I work, and SWR
Baden-Baden, who both
use Viola, and the Berliner Philharmoniker, who use
Bratche).
Michael
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