>> Claudio wrote: ... harpsichord ... discussing ... how to play it.
> Davitt wrote: ... musical thought is very complex ... masterclasses
communication ... modern pedagogy has a tendency to become too verbal.
Thank you Davitt for devoting to this matter your detailed attention. Your
extensive post just confirms something we all know: how thorough and
thoughtful you are in your celebrated performances.
And indeed, to summarise Davitt's conclusions, I guess we all agree that it
is not possible to teach the interpretation of baroque music, in all its
multi-dimensional complexity, from a written text.
However, my idea was just to encourage the simpler discussion of performance
matters, the sort of doubts that arise at the initial phases of
score-reading and then progressing into finger-moving. I am sure quite a few
of us have learnt a lot from these discussions, both in publications and
online. And a lot has been published by outstanding performers, both in the
past (e.g. by Diruta, Frescobaldi, F. Couperin, Dandrieu, Rameau and C.P.E.
Bach) and in modern times (e.g. by Maria Boxall, John Butt, Kenneth Gilbert,
Igor Kipnis, Mark Kroll, David Ledbetter, Davitt Moroney[!], Howard Schott,
Tilman Skowroneck, Peter Williams and also less-famous ones such as myself.)
The topics discussed in these writings cover all sorts of interpretation
matters such as Tempo, Registration, Articulation, Rhythm, Ornaments and
Fingering.
Again, these texts provide very useful advice, although they certainly do
not teach the student how to play a piece. I fully agree with Davitt that it
is more efficient to discuss many of these topics "face to face and with
hands on the harpsichord", and this is the enormous value of the personal
lesson and masterclass.
However, when the personal contact is not possible because of physical
distance, thanks to HPSCHD-L, a written interchange online IMNSHO can be
very fruitful indeed.
Best regards,
CDV
http://couperin.braybaroque.ie/
"By discussing you will not change the opinion of others. Sometimes, you
risk changing your own. (Pitigrilli)
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