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Here's the problem

We have these dunderhead musicologists who get their hands on a particular treatise and instantly become enamored of it to the extent that they start to believe/claim that it explains EVERYTHING from the period of history in which it was written! How stupid! Let's do a little thought experiment. . . What if Lang Lang wrote a treatise on piano playing in the twenty-first century? I can just see some future musicologist now, pouring through the pages and noting that pianists must have played with swaying torsos and flying elbows - all the while pedaling in their Lang Lang Addidas shoes! :-)

The obvious problem with this approach is that there is WAY more diversity of playing (technique and interpretation) than any one treatise can account for at any particular period in time.

BTW, I wonder how up we all are for another discussion of vibrato. There's been another discussion over on Google Groups in which Dave Hurwitz has announced that he's presented his ideas on historical vibrato (which largely agree with mine) at several musicological conferences, and that he is about to travel to Italy to present his contentions at another of these conferences. He used to have a couple of large articles available on the Classics Today web site on this subject, but he has temporarily taken them down in order to elaborate them and to properly footnote them for scholarly use. God bless you, Dave! Let's stop this sack-cloth-and-ashes non-vibrato madness while we still can! ;-)


The proper and correct way to play the piano in the twenty-first century.

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