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Historically Infomed Performance "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 撰寫於郵件 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 下面是在英文的「古典音樂討論版」所看到的討論。請問有誰知道 "HIP" movement 是 > 什麼?好像是有關用古樂器演奏古曲的「運動」。 > > 有空請到 www.yentzu.idv.tw. 坐坐 > > > "Sightreader" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I hear period instruments and style advocated as > >a way of solving various problems in clarity and > >balance lost by using modern instruments. > > > >Is this the only way to regain those values? Rather > >than moving everything back 200 years, can't we > >advance instrument design and performance style > >*forward* instead? Can't we try to get the best of > >both worlds by reinventing instrument design and > >playing technique rather than insisting that you > >choose from existing traditions that are either 50 > >or 200 years old? > > Well, yes and no. It is useful to look at history, where you see alternating > periods of progress and regression, Renaissance and Dark Age, with an > occasional cataclysmic collapse that probably more or less erases the > affected > civilization. The key to this is, each Renaissance is sparked by a renewed > interest in the previous ones, and if you master the ideas that made them > possible, you are in a position to improve upon them. This goes for art as > well > as science; nothing of consequence is arbitrary. > > Much of the so-called "HIP" movement is bogus, and many of the performances > are > sterile. However, there is something to be learned from the old construction > of > instruments (violin builders are still debating the secrets of Stradivari, > Amadi and Guarnari); the one quality that has been lost from particularly > the > winds and keyboards is the quality of registration, where the instrument, in > imitation of the well-trained human voice, has distinctive shifts in tone > color > as it passes from one register to another. There is a recording that I find > particularly instructive, of Paul Badura-Skoda playing Mozart's C Minor > Fantasy > on a forte-piano. The register shifts are very pronounced, and you can hear > how > the composer took them into account. > > So, if we are to begin correcting the defects in modern instrument building > (and modern composition), we must begin by identifying crucial knowledge > which > has been lost. > > > > > eusebius7 > Davidsbuendler > http://members.aol.com/buendler > > --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net Complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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