Really? Which instruments??
On 2/17/06, Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
On Feb 17, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
> how authentic is improvised percussion to Baroque music?
It's authentic where it is known to have been used (as in Handel's
Music for the Royal Fireworks)--and not elsewhere!
> Praetorius lists many percussion instruments; and we know they were
> used in all types of music of his period.
No we don't. Some of the instruments he depicts are peasant
instruments that would never have used in any of the surviving (i.e.,
written) music of the period. Others are military signalling
instruments, and *none*, to the best of my knowledge, would have been
used for anything more exalted than social dance music--i.e., pop.
My wife coined the term "tinkleplunk" as a measure of the degree to
which a modern Renaissance ensemble is willing to pander to a modern
audience. The more percussion and other inappropriate instruments, the
more lowbrow and "Renaissance Faire"ish.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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