Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 1999/03

From: "Steven J Goldman, MD" <sjgoldman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] klarinet Digest 2 Mar 1999 03:33:58 -0000 Issue 1114
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 02:42:23 -0500

I must take exception with your view. I have a passion for history and if
you imerse yourself in a period and music, you can,with a little effort, get
a good feeling for what it was like to live in that era, and approach the
feeling that a music lover of the time had when listening to a piece. Of
course this is not necessary, and one can still get a novel and enjoyable
appreciation of a work, even though it would not match that of a listener of
the time. You still are the better for it.

Steve
Glenview IL

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From: Keith [mailto:100012.1302@-----.com]
Subject: [kl] klarinet Digest 2 Mar 1999 03:33:58 -0000 Issue 1114

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 that
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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