Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 1999/03

From: DHmorgan@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Sabine Meyer's Stamitz
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:14:36 -0500

In a message dated 3/1/99 9:10:27 AM Pacific Standard Time,
rgarrett@-----.edu writes:

<< Steve proposes that music is not a single person's creation once it is
played by someone else - that changing the intent is perfectly fine given
"good taste". An analogy - if a person buys a piece of clothing and alters
the design in any way - say change the buttons or add a cuff - to conform
to styles of the day. Is it wrong? Is it lacking in "taste"? Does it
demonstrate lack of knowledge for previous styles? Does it show utter
disregard for the designer? My interpretation of what Steve has said is
that the answer would be no. >>

Something that has always struck me about Histocially Informed Performance is
that back in the Romantic era, musicians seem to have not hesitated to perform
Baroque music according to the tastes of the day--thus all the editions of
Bach keyboard works marked up with rousing crescendos and decrescendos--which
my piano teach promptly crossed out because they were 'wrong!'. (i.e., the
peice was originally meant for harpsichord which cannot be made gradually
louder and softer)

By the way--does anyone else ever play Mozart in New Orleans Jazz style just
for the fun of it? It depends on the peice, but generally it sounds great!
To me, at least. Don't yell, Steve--I only do it when I'm alone.

Don

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