Hans Åberg <hans.aber...@telia.com> writes: >> On 1 May 2018, at 00:42, J Martin Rushton > >> For a lot of earlier music it can be difficult to know if "flauto" is a >> flauto dolce (sweet flute - recorder) or a flauto transvero (sp?).
More like flauto traverso. The terminal "o" makes obvious that we are talking about Italian rather than Latin, and "trans" did not retain all of its letters there. > It was a claim about J.S. Bach, who seemed to favor more expressive > instruments. But performers of recorders are nowadays good. Paid performers. Recorder performances are a thing in primary school contexts already. I remember some performance from secondary school where a pair of prim girls were playing, I think, a duet on soprano recorder (I don't even think an alto was involved) from some booklet, with the intonation to be expected and everybody clapped politely. The proceeded to WHEEEEEEEE blow out their mouthpieces, then played another piece. WHEEEEEEE. And another. WHEEEEEEE. I think they proceeded to murder the whole booklet. WHEEEEEEE. Probably not more than 20 pieces or so. WHEEEEEE. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
