Dear Howard,
Many, many thanks for the info on Handel. Does 'Va tacito' from Giulio
Cesare' also count as an example of horn writing? The trouble is, that when I was
doing post-grad work at Oxford with Egon Wellesz, they never told you that kind
of thing, what a horn sounds like, etc. So even
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a well-meaning friend bought me a couple of CDs for
Christmas, played on original instruments, the Handel Fireworks music, and
the Mozart horn concertos. The horns in particular sound dreadful, awfully out
of tune, so much so that I got a headache after a while.
My
to go back and enjoy cds or concerts not played this way.
Donatella
http://web.tiscali.it/awebd
Tom Beck wrote:
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 12:23 AM
Subject: Lewd, not lute music
the Handel Fireworks music, and
the Mozart horn concertos. The horns in particular sound dreadful, awfully
Hope you all had a nice Christmas. Hearing I was learning something as
obscure and ancient as the lute, a well-meaning friend bought me a couple of CDs for
Christmas, played on original instruments, the Handel Fireworks music, and
the Mozart horn concertos. The horns in particular sound
Actually one can assume they had a *very* good ear and the examples you
had the pleasure to listen to would sould are rather u
Am Fre, 2003-12-26 um 00.23 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hope you all had a nice Christmas. Hearing I was learning something as
obscure and ancient as the lute, a
Sorry - after a couple of beers it sometimes happens I hit the wrong key
..
Actually one can assume they had a *very* good ear and the examples you
had the pleasure to listen to would sound rather offending to them.
All the best
Thomas
(time to go to bed - to much foot, to much alcohol and
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On Thursday, December 25, 2003, at 06:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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My question: do you believe that the composers heard that
out-of-tunesness in
the heads when they composed the music, even liked the sound (knowing
no
other), or would they have longed for instruments that actually
On Thursday, December 25, 2003, at 07:59 PM, David Rastall wrote:
I realise this is not a lute question, just a thought that crossed my
mind
and which I would like to pass on, in the hope of receiving an answer
which
might convince me that recording music such that the result makes one
In a message dated 12/25/03 7:52:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Our job is to make music that moves the audience, because we
are musicians, not museum curators.
Yours,
Jim
Hey, Jim!
Some of us try to be both museum curators AND musicians!
Best wishes this
James A Stimson wrote:
The audience was marveling at the fact that the notes
were in tune...
That's how I feel when I hear a horn (valved or natural) playing in
tune... something which happenes far too rarely.
--
Rough-edged songs from a dark place in the soul:
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David,
I agree with both your notes on this thread. The old composers were
accustomed to different temperaments, and I prefer most older music to most
of our newest. But that latter is a matter of taste.
What defines being in tune? We know it isn't a strict tuning to the
overtone scale and the
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