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Re: "historically informed"

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by: gggg gggg - Mon, 8 May 2023 08:20 UTC

On Saturday, December 13, 2014 at 10:50:03 AM UTC-8, ..@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, December 13, 2014 4:14:07 AM UTC-10, William Sommerwerck wrote:
> > I'm fussy about word usage. I'm increasingly annoyed by narrators saying
> > "recorded history".
> >
> > "Recorded history" is a tautology. The word "history" implies something for
> > which there's a written or visual record. * This is why dinosaurs are called
> > pre-historic creatures.
> >
> > "Historically informed" performance practices have to be based on a reliable
> > record of how music was actually performed -- not on what we think or assume
> > performance practices were.
> >
> > I'm curious... Which HIPs have genuinely historical evidence supporting them?
> >
> > * Fossils don't count. We're talking rock carvings, cave paintings, etc..
>
> For those into HIP:
> - History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
>
> Joseph Conrad
> -----------------
>
> And as I always say:
>
> - Can a Stradivarius
>
> in the hands of a beginner
>
> Ever sound as good as
>
> A pawn shop fiddle
>
> In the hands of a Paganini?

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