On 7 Feb 2009 at 10:00, dc wrote: > One of the main problems that affected baroque music at the > beginning of its revival was precisely that of excessive generalizations, > so it would make little sense to pursue in that vein.
Dennis is exactly correct here. Almost all questions of Baroque performance question are unanswerable in the general sense -- instead, you need to ask about a specific repertory, because performance practice was very local and certainly very specific to certain styles (e.g., inegale is one of those things that applies to a very narrow range of the French repertory and sometimes to other repertories that partake of the French style -- and inegale doesn't at all mean long/short so much as strong/weak, but is much more variable, quite like the different degrees of swing in jazz). Because of all that, it's much better to ask about a specific piece, a specific composer or a specific repertory (delineated by time and place). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
