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Re: "the only way to know if a recoding is “accurate” is to be present when it is recorded." ----No, alas.

The only thing I would add is that it's a mistake to think that musical sound has to be beautiful or "musical". Composers and artists use sound expressively, and some musical sounds can be downright harsh or ugly. The range of things that music can express is basically the range of things that we can feel, and not all of them are pretty or beautiful.

It's a mistake to try and make everything beautiful, or to try to make everything reflect any single quality you like. We need to retain the full range of qualities expressed in the performance if we possibly can or we lose some of what is contained in the music. Making everything "beautiful" can't help but lose some of what is in a lot of music.


David Aiken

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