Re: Why do you like Mozart's music?


Michael Schaffer scribbled:

> > >> "Authentic" has many synonyms. In this context, "original" and
> > >> "period" (as in "original instruments" and "period instruments") can
> > >> be. The fact is, a great many ingenuous people believe they're
> > >> getting "the real thing" if a record cover boasts of the period
> > >> instruments used in a recorded performance and, even worse, that they
> > >> aren't otherwise. The arguments Matty claims nobody ever makes on
> > >> behalf of HIP performances are in fact accepted as fact by a great
> > >> chunk of the market.

> > > Get a copy of L. Mozart's violin book and report back when you have
> > > read and digested it.

What enormous, unfounded, ultimately inept condescension. Judging by
his contributions here alone, Gable has forgotten more books than
Schaffer remembers.

> > David's not arguing that research be ousted from the musical craft, if
> > that's what you're leading to.

Of course he's not. Gable's precisely arguing against the Calvinist
stupidity which finds some kind of unmissable revelation in one single
book or one single-minded approach to interpretation.

> How people can deny the value of learning about the parameters of music
> that go beyond the fairly sparse notation is simply beyond me.

So now a competent musicologist, as undoubtedly Gable is, denies (he
doesn't!) the value of learning about the parameters of music outside
notation. As annoying as DG can be on occasion, these ignorant attacks
on his competence or ideas can be one hundred times more annoying than
his worst.

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