Klarinet Archive - Posting 000074.txt from 1999/03

From: Keith <100012.1302@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] klarinet Digest 2 Mar 1999 03:33:58 -0000 Issue 1114
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 02:42:18 -0500

from Stephen J Goldman
>The "language" of music crosses culture and time. You may not
understand Elizabethan pronunciation but what does that have to do with
being emotionally moved by a Lute piece by Dowland played on its proper
instrument, with proper instrumental technique. <

This is all fine .. but one thing cannot be made authentic in HIP, and th=
at
is the ear of the listener.
We cannot listen to Mozart with an ear that has not heard Beethoven, let
alone Shostakovitch
and Schoenberg.

I like HIPs and find them illuminating, fascinating and musical ... but I=

also believe that a composer
does not necessarily know consciously the full scope of his/her work. A
simple scale SOUNDS different
to us than it did to Mozart's audience. We can hear a mjor second as a
chord, not a dissonance. Meaning
changes, but is still glorious!

Keith Bowen

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