At 10:54 PM +0200 7/24/06, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 23.07.2006 John Howell wrote:
For Italian ornamentation, study the way Corelli ornamented his
adagios, and compare the written notes with the ornamented version.
To be honest, and knowing this is going to cause a long discussion,
I seriously doubt that those ornamentations are in fact Corelli's.
While you're absolutely correct about their being questionable, they
were certainly published as Corelli's, and therefore must at the
least conform with what would have been expected at the time. (I
have often wondered whom John Walsh found who could take those
flurries of notes down during a live performance!!!) And certainly
Bach reflects that KIND of ornamentation in e.g. the opening movement
of the G minor solo sonata (or partita) ohne bass. What makes the
Bach fascinating is the way he effortlessly combined French and
Italian ornamentation in the same piece.
John
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