Happy holidays, folks! Interesting batch of comments at http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2005/12/22/change_your_tune.html about Handel's...
This is to announce two new CD sets released January 4th 2006, recorded in March 2005. I am the performer and producer of both of these sets. They use the...
Dear Colleagues, I'm posting the most recent version of my liner notes here, in the hope that you will have helpful reactions. If you haven't seen member Uri...
Dear BB, Thanks for sending the notes, and for your recommendation of my article. I should note that my article should soon become available on Goldberg's ...
I'm grateful for the interest in my recording. Provided I can wrestle the liner notes and translate them in the next couple of weeks, the recording should ...
RADIO/INTERNET BROADCAST of Bach's "St Matthew Passion" As part of a current production/tour in the Netherlands -- twelve concert performances of Bach's "St...
Sotheby's apparently has this for sale in a couple of weeks: http://www.shareholder.com/bid/downloads/news/20061109-218066.pdf Froberger autograph MS of 35...
Hi, folks! After a lot of hemming and hawing about how to present my Art of Fugue efforts, I've decided to release the first of several products: a recording...
Dear BB -- and all, Many thanks for the update -- I look forward to seeing the completed product when it comes out. I'll do my best to ensure that Goldberg...
... Yup. I read that one and offered Hughes a couple of pages of comments (solicited by him) back in September. Congrats on the release, BB! I'm off toward...
Enjoy the attachment: some excerpts from Peter Williams's newest book, mildly arguing (in his inimitable pussyfooting way) against things he didn't get in my...
Bradley, in your attachment, under the third question/observation, you wrote: "[Williams's] retuning-per-piece principle is just plain wrong (page 336: 'For...
I have to admit that I don't know all that there is to know on this subject, but the idea of retuning for the key at hand seems to pass the common sense test....
Hi folks, I've just added a link on this site to my white paper on performance and recording of Bach's "Kunst der Fuge," in case some of you here would like to...
Thanks for adjusting my memory regarding your adjustments, BB. There's nothing incorrect with the practice of tranposing a temperament, so far as I know....
Dear Rob, With no known historical justification for or against such a practice, I simply set an ad hoc limit for the amount that I would transpose in either...
Congratulations to New Mizler member Bruce Haynes on the impending release of his new book, a description of which (taken from the Oxford Univ. website) is...
... But, I believe some other important issues are: - Retuning per piece is out of the question for fretted clavichords. And the WTC *is* mostly playable on...
Dear BL, I still have a few questions. ... I have tried to play WTC on a double-fretted clavichord and ran into (interference) annoyances at many turns....
... Nope, I didn't say that (or imply it), nor do I believe or use it. :) I say simply that whenever we get past 12 notes in the same composition, we have to...
Dear BL, Thanks for the clarification. I think others, too, might be confused by the numerous circumstances in which you propose use of the tuning system you...
Dear BL, Thanks for the clarification. I think others, too, might be confused by the numerous circumstances in which you propose use of the tuning system you...
Dear BL, Thanks for the clarification. I think others, too, might be confused by the numerous circumstances in which you propose use of the tuning system you...
Yes! The full-enough explanation of the *problem* of enharmonics is really the hard part. - Knowing why misspelled notes, or respelled notes, make a problem...
Dear fellow members, As some of you know, I'm a regular reviewer and contributor to Goldberg: Early Music Magazine (www.goldbergweb.com). This journal recently...
Dear List members, A new edition of Orbis Musicae (published by Tel Aviv University), which has just gone online, contains two Bach articles that might...
Bradley Brookshire's new recording of J.S. Bach's "Art of Fugue" is now available for sale at: www.BachHarpsichord.com Of this new recording, member Uri Golomb...
Could anyone please tell me the following?: 1.) The ensemble sizes (both vocal and instrumental) used in Eisenach, in Ohrdruf, and in Lueneburg from 1685-1703,...
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