Many thanks for the link, Andrew.
However we should not forget what Francois Couperin writes in his L'art de toucher le clavecin:
(translation from Breitkopf & Härtel 5560)
"The fact is we write a thing differently from the way in which we execute it; and it is this which causes foreigners to play our music less well than we do theirs.
The Italians, on the contrary, write their music in the true time values in which they have intended them to be played.  For instance, we dot several consecutive quavers in diatonic succession, and yet we write them as equal;  our custom has enslaved us; and we hold fast to it."

Ironic that one of the leading exponents of the music we love should have qualms about "les notes inégales"!!
And we in 2015 are surely much greater "foreigners" than the ones Couperin was referring to!

This forum is really great!


Best wishes

Philip

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