Author: Trevor M
Date: 2012-02-21 18:53
I don't think it's possible to really know how it sounded, even if we play it on actual instruments of the era.
You may have heard recordings of brass bands on wax cylinders, or very early recordings of clarinet or violin or voice, where there are all sorts of ideas about vibrato and phrasing and 'good taste' that are so foreign to the contemporary mindset – and this after barely a century – that you can't really reproduce them. Now, extend that effect by three hundred years and compound it with the question of local styles, and the fact that we don't really have any surviving reeds from that era so we don't know what would have passed for 'good' tone. It's fun to think about it, but I don't think we should delude ourselves.
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