Author: NorbertTheParrot
Date: 2008-08-20 17:08
There are some treatises (C P E Bach, Quantz) that are generally regarded as pretty authoritative.
But whatever the books might say, I think it is absurd to suppose that musicians playing before the invention of the metronome couldn't - or at least didn't - play in strict time. If they were playing rapid dance music, we can be pretty sure they did. If they were playing slow expressive arias with lots of improvised ornamentation by the soloist, we can be pretty sure they didn't.
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