Stanley wrote: > There is, of course, no "perfection" in musical expression, but Sor would > surely have gotten a bit closer to it had he had at his disposal the > technical possibilities of many of his contemporaries.
I understand: 'Sors compositions would have gotten closer to musical perfection, had Sor had Giuliani's right hand'. But I ask: to make use of it wouldn't he have needed Giuliani's brain as well? Do you regard Sor as a frustrated guitar composer? > Compare the style of expressive vocabulary of Giuliani in op 15 to > Matiegka > in op 17 - sonatas written within 2 years of one another in the same city. > There is no normal practice that can account for both. And there is no way > two musicians - then or today - could mark up plain versions of those > scores > and come up with the same result. So, the question remains, why is Sor's > music so sparce in this regard Would you suggest that Sor had not enough subtlety in his RH to produce different articulations? regards, Paul To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
