On 9 Feb 2009 at 17:46, earlrs...@aol.com wrote: > Mr Fenton... that's a HUGE statement for so little backup "Whether or not > it was intended by the original practicioners" and your support for it where > "you" grew up.. if you have read ANY of the Wagner literature and heard ANY > of > the conductors of the direct Wagner lineage, Muck, S Wagner, Nickisch or even > subjected them to audio analysis in for example Digital Performer, you would > very quickly that an EXTREMELY flexible tempo
I have not said anything about tempo... > is the order of the day and that > there is NO SUCH THING as > "all notes being of equal weight". And I said exactly that -- I said that weight in the Wagnerian style was determined by the shape of the line, not by metric position. Did you perhaps miss that post? > I have no idea where you got this "play it > like a Sousa March/metronomically" idea, That is ridiculous -- nothing swings more than a Sousa march. > but it is directly contradictory to > Wagner's wishes and contradicts historically informed performance practice. Metronome marking and tempo have nothing at all to do with what I'm speaking of, so I don't think it's possible to have a discussion when you're speaking about one topic and I'm speaking of an entirely different one. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
