Dear Monica On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: .. > The idea that because the ciaccona was originally a popular doesn't mean > that anything based on it to be performed in a popular manner. Kapsberger's > villanelle may have been popular songs but that doesn't seem to me to > justify adding percussion to them as well as batteries of strummed instruments. .. > An example of this is on a CD by the group > L'Arpeggiata which includes a Ciaccona di Paradiso e dell'Inferno performed > in a way that someone very aptly described to me as "wink wink nudge nudge > style". It's meant to be a serious dialogue about heaven and hell. > > I don't think groups these recordings really have any insight into the > sensibilities of 17th century players.
Perhaps you know Agostino Agazzari article 'Del sonare sopra il basso', published in 1607? It among other interesting matters makes it very clear that the orchestration could be _very_ rich in those days! I wouldn't be too eager to condemn L'Arpeggiata having "no insight into the sensibilities of 17th century players" as you wrote! I have some clips of Agazzari's article in my 16 years old page, see http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/agazzari.html All the best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
