Music 1710F/G Lecture Notes - Christoph Wolff, Johann Nikolaus Forkel
6 Feb 2013
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How to avoid these problems: be responsible with other peoples" words. Therefore, to get a sense of the musical work, we must perform it. Recordings are set in stone: preserve the ideas of the performer, rather than the composers" score. Scores provide us with very valuable information. Come up with a chart like this mm. This will result in many phrases such as. Important to mention the performer who interprets the piece because they did all the work of interpreting the piece. Two conceptual ideas about musicology and what music tells us: Aesthetic and historical/contextual (compare in each point of essay 3) Reading text is not reading facts; it is reading interpretation and figuring out if the information is valid. How to poorly represent the ideas of others: It has recently been written that bach was the perfect musician and composer. But scholars did not always hold bach in such esteem.
