Re: Period vs Modern instruments?

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Sightreader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>"Margaret Mikulska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Why would you like to reinvent instruments and techniques?  They already
>> exist.
>
>Simply to push art forward.  Someone brought up the
>point that modern instruments have smoothed out the
>difference in registers in some instruments, but some
>period composers may have been *relying* on this
>difference to bring out particular effects.  Can those
>register differences be re-introduced to instruments
>without also saddling the players with things like
>valveless technology?  In other words, is there a way
>to get to the composers intention through advances
>rather than retreats in instrument design and style?
>

But then, if you want to push art forward, why make any
use of acoustical instruments and pre-existing music
literature at all? The way to get the composer's intent
without retreats in design is to composer music.




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