Archive for April, 2010
Friday, April 16th, 2010
hot off the press: BBC Music Magazine May 2010 issue, with cover CD
cover CD for May 2010 issue of BBC Music Magazine
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
The modernity of the early Baroque
In the preface to Il secondo libro di toccate…&c. (1637) [the Second Book of Toccatas…], Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) wrote a few helpful comments to the player of his music. Amongst them we find these comments: ‘Primieramente; che non dee questo modo di sonare stare soggetto a battuta, come ueggiamo usarsi ne i Madrigali moderni, i quali quantunque difficili si ageuolano per mezzodella […]