Right on - as I've said before, frontal music is largely a development of 16th century Western
civilisation and is not universal, even now.
By the way, be careful about the Gabrielli's in St. Marks - there is at least some evidence that
separate choirs singing antiphonally were _not _used at St Mark's (see Bryant, D. "The Cori Spezzati
of St. Mark's: Myth and Reality" in Early Music History, Cambridge 1981, p169).
Dave
On 01/04/2012 10:20, Paul Hodges wrote:
--On 31 March 2012 18:34 -0700 Robert Greene <[email protected]> wrote:
Of course music exists that is not in front. But the vast bulk of
concert music is not like that.
Sure; but what proportion of music are we happy to be unable to reproduce properly? My organ
music (admittedly as much as 20% of my listening) was a trivial example - and it's only in
combination with other things that it becomes spatially interesting, generally. You mentioned
Gabrieli and Berlioz in a slightly dismissive manner; I would add to them people like Stockhausen
and Earle Brown, a folk group moving among their audience, a hall full of schoolchildren bouncing
their sounds off each other from different parts of the hall. Not all within the restricted form
of "concert music", but music in the real world where we turn our heads and enjoy our whole
environment.
Paul
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