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Re: Excellent Performance Notes on Bartok & Mozart

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-10-02 13:07

Liquorice -

Agreed. Quantz is of course earlier than Mozart, but he was an important composer, player and writer.

On GBK's excellent thread on teaching, many people have said that playing baroque music is essential preparation for all players, and that the general lack of this preparation is one reason clarinetists don't play as musically as flutists.

I go farther back. For many years I sang in a very good, small (24-voice) choir that did mostly renaissance music. We also did Gergorian Chant and found that it was essential to understanding the renaissance lines, and that renaissance was essential to understanding baroque music.

Each style illuminates what comes after it. My understanding and performance of every type of music improved exponentially when I learned early music.

Quantz is particularly good, because he gives hundreds of examples of Eingänge, and also how to ornament basic intervals and note groups. Quantz should be part of everyone's study of basic musicianship.

Best regards.

Ken Shaw

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