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Re: Mozart concerto -- descriptive and prescriptive

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2009-08-28 22:31

clariknight wrote, in part:

>> ..this brings me to wonder whether or not it would be impossible to truly decide whether or not the piece should or could have been "prescriptive" - perhaps never entirely but possibly more so than we believe it to be today?>>

I'm sorry; I hope I've now made it clear that I was talking about Mozart's music in general, and wanting to use the concerto just as an example -- albeit one appropriate to the BBoard.

>> The concerto is one of the oldest pieces for clarinet...there is no mass grouping of the way it is interpreted, not even close. So it becomes impossible to make it prescriptive - to do so would be contradictory of over two centuries of history.>>

That's true. But my distinction between 'prescriptive' and 'descriptive' is a different one. It is the notion that a composer using a 'descriptive' notation is writing the way they do because they ASSUME a set of background responses in a player.

My analogy was an author writing to be read aloud, UNDER THE ASSUMPTION that the reader would understand standard English pronunciation rules.

Tony

Post Edited (2009-08-28 22:52)

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