Author: skygardener
Date: 2008-08-20 09:33
After having not thought about it much at all until recently, I have learned that the metronome was invented in only 1812. Thus, never before 1812 did a single performer practice with a metronome.
For the "Historically Informed Performance" people here, do you think that practicing ancient music with a metronome can lead to an un-authentic performance? What about the concept of steady tempo itself? If Mozart or Bach or Beethoven (for most of his life), didn't have or use a metronome, would the idea of a fully steady tempo be undesirable? Were frequent changes in tempi perhaps more common and/or more perceptible than today?? And if they even were- how could we know?
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