At 11:40 PM -0500 2/9/05, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 9 Feb 2005 at 23:27, John Howell wrote:
I'm not sure where the Austrian Lutherans came from! That use of
trombones (or sackbutts) goes back at least to Schuetz, one of whose
Psalm settings from about 1619 I studied in a graduate seminar, in
On Feb 9, 2005, at 8:19 PM, Rudolf van Berkum wrote:
In the case of the trombones' entry in The Magic Flute that Raymond
Horton
mentioned, we can appreciate that for the Lutheran members of the
audience
in Mozart's day, the sound of the trombone would have additional
meaning for
them because of
Ken Moore commented:
If by comprehensibility you mean the same as I do, then I agree.OTOH, I
don't see how you could get any grasp on meaning (which is very tenuous
concept in music, IMO) without reference to outside information.
in response to David Bailey:
I never claimed the right to make
