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Re: Mozart concerto -- descriptive and prescriptive

Author: skygardener
Date: 2009-08-30 15:39

Tony wrote- "So a 'descriptive' notation often assumes a degree of knowledge on the part of the reader of that notation.

Mozart's notaton is of that sort. It will be instructive to consider why it cannot be translated into a prescriptive notation."
(super hypothetical question about this)
I can see this makes sense for some of works that have a MS in existence, but with the Concerto we don't have a MS. Thus, we really don't know about the validity of any of the articulations in the first place- so which should we take seriously?
I truly wonder about the historically accurate performance concept- at what point does a performance become invalid due to lack of "authentic" performance practices? And the circular argument question also comes back- even if we know what was common for most music of the time, how do we know Mozart liked/wanted that in his music?
A good example of this I learned in grad school was that, although orchestra and choir in Mozart's time were small, he often requested more funds so that he could hire more people to have a bigger ensemble. Evidence shows that he never really got the numbers he wanted. So what do we do? Perform it with the small numbers that were in the first performance or perform with more people (but how many?) as it seems Mozart wanted?

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