Klarinet Archive - Posting 000140.txt from 2003/09

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Missed all the Fun
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 05:06:46 -0400

Possibly the most famous viol player and composer for viol- Marin Marais.
1656-1728.....

At 01:02 AM 9/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello, Klarinet List.
...
>> Moreover, please try to think about whether
>> you really have to write this kind of 16th/17th
>> c. music for an instrument that was conceived
>> in a very different period for a very different
>> kind of music. Why don't you write your
>> retro-fugues for viol consort, lute or virginal?
>> Danyel Franke
>
> Anyone who knows Music History well should
>be rolling on the floor, laughing at this glaring
>stupidity by now! Danyel Franke has confused
>Renaissance Era "Consorts of Viols" with Baroque
>Era Fugues! Those "Viols" were bowed FRETTED
>instruments, that were replaced by the Violin Family
>more than 100 YEARS before the definition of the
>"Tonal Contrapuntal Fugue" that J.S. Bach wrote,
>had solidified, around the time of Bach's birth in
>1685. Poor Danyel Franke knows even less about
>Music History than he does about Counterpoint. .
>. . and that's hard to do!

(Bear Woodson)
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Bayside HS Orchestra Director
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