On 30 April 2012 18:01, howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote:
(as part of a summary of the place of Bach's lute works in his general output that I can only agree with): > Not everything Bach wrote is the B minor Mass [...] > trumpets were not played with fingers [...] > lute players and guitarists simply don't have the highly-developed > embouchures required to play the high notes. Neither do trumpet players ... Did you ever have the doubtful pleasure of attending a concert of the B-minor mass with _real_ Baroque trumpets (without holes instead of the 1960s 'Bach' trumpets which are the generally accepted standard in today's early music Esperanto)? If you have, you'll never say Bach wrote competently (or whatever the quote was) for trumpet, as there are notes simply out of the range of the instrument. Anyway, even the notes within the range are 'interesting', however potentially superb. As a no-holes trumpet player I know tends to summarise his job: 'a lifetime of practise for five minutes of embarresment'. I love it when they are in the orchestra, btw, it makes my all-gut lute a paragon of stable tuning. ;-) David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
