> On 1 May 2018, at 10:34, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Hans Åberg <hans.aber...@telia.com> writes: > >>> On 1 May 2018, at 00:42, J Martin Rushton >> >>> For a lot of earlier music it can be difficult to know if "flauto" is a >>> flauto dolce (sweet flute - recorder) or a flauto transvero (sp?). > > More like flauto traverso. The terminal "o" makes obvious that we are > talking about Italian rather than Latin, and "trans" did not retain all > of its letters there. > >> It was a claim about J.S. Bach, who seemed to favor more expressive >> instruments. But performers of recorders are nowadays good. > > Paid performers. Recorder performances are a thing in primary school > contexts already.
The recorders used in schools are an idea from Carl Orff, with the idea that it is inexpensive. Therefore, one made a modern recorder tuning that should be simpler, but without the capacity of the Baroque tuning. But, as it turn out, it is a bad instrument to start playing when little, because the fingers motoric is not fully developed. So that got the recorder a bad reputation instead. > I remember some performance from secondary school where a pair of prim > girls were playing, I think, a duet on soprano recorder (I don't even > think an alto was involved) from some booklet, with the intonation to be > expected and everybody clapped politely. The proceeded to WHEEEEEEEE > blow out their mouthpieces, then played another piece. WHEEEEEEE. And > another. WHEEEEEEE. I think they proceeded to murder the whole > booklet. WHEEEEEEE. Probably not more than 20 pieces or so. WHEEEEEE. Give thanks to Carl Orff for that. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
