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- From: mgresham@dscatl.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: Brumel review
- Message-ID: <1275@dscatl.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 16:48:16 GMT
- References: <22JAN199300301423@eccles.caltech.edu>
- Reply-To: mgresham@dscatl.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
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- In article <22JAN199300301423@eccles.caltech.edu> inr@eccles.caltech.edu (I. Neill Reid) writes:
- >>From: mccomt@aix.rpi.edu (Todd Michel McComb)
- >
- > (concerning the division of parts)
-
- While is sounds like the argument is about classification of parts
- would you both concede the possibilty that the composer was
- explicitly writing for the particular group singers he had
- at his disposal, regardless of the classifications, et al.?
- Therefore, if you must classify the voices, wouldn't it be
- most practical, even in modern performance practice, to examine
- the ranges and tessituras and select singers accordingly? Assuming
- that a modern ensemble also has a practical limitation on their own
- resources, they'd have to make certain compromises in this regard
- or simply not program the piece. Simply stated: we do those kinds
- of things all the time as conductors and vocal ensembles. I would
- not doubt that Brumel did too.
-
- > Neill Reid - inr@eccles.caltech.edu
- >
- >>T. M. McComb
-
- Cheers,
-
- --Mark Gresham
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