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Re: Mozart Concerto

Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2019-04-22 22:11

Tony, thanks very much. I do think there's a difference from what I said, and it's a helpful one. The "more or less" is not always recognized by specialists in historical music practices--when one has a very nice hammer, lots of things start to look like nails--and I suppose that's a lot of what I was complaining against. But there's also the consideration that the original few timpanists were playing the phrase for Beethoven himself, and we shouldn't discount the possibility that he might have directed something different; a barely perceptible but steady diminuendo, for example, or the opposite. Though not entirely reliable, there is a description of him railing against the "tyranny of the barline." With the two bars of Mozart, I quite like what you said about them.

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