Ah--Muskalisches Exequien is GORGEOUS! I like the way the soloist states the phrases subsequently expounded (at least in a musical sense) by the ensemble.
ajr > At 6:35 PM -0500 12/20/08, David W. Fenton wrote: >> >>We played two concerts last week, and we played a couple of pieces >>where we had 7 viols playing. That's a pretty amazing sound, but not >>one you're going to hear very often! > > Apologies, List; this should have been private, > but I don't have David's address. > > David: Were you by any chance playing the > Musikalisches Exequien? We did it at Indiana a > good long while ago, when we had 7 viols > available, and it was a really luscious sound, > not what I expected from Schütz. > > John > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition > of jazz musicians. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale