On Mar 14, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Monica Hall wrote:
There is a paradox at the heart of the Early Music Movement - we like the
music but we don't like the way the people who created it lived their lives.
But you can't separate the two. You have to try and understand the world in
which they
On Mar 14, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Monica Hall wrote:
There is a paradox at the heart of the Early Music Movement - we
like the music but we don't like the way the people who created it
lived their lives. But you can't separate the two. You have to try
and understand the world in which they
Very good point, Monica. Attending a concert/discussion/slide presentation
recently by the duo Asteria, the issue of social context for the courtly love
songs they sang was made quite clear. Seeing the areas where these songs were
written and sung (Asteria travels to France annually to do
Dear List:
I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the difficulty Bach had with his
parishoners over his arrangements of chorale preludes. From Christoph
Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, p. 85:
First, they reproved Bach for having hitherto made many curious variations
in
