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ciaccona
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Does anyone think it might be worthwhile having a board devoted to early music. After all we have one for jazz. Is there suffecient interest? It could have a fairly wide ranging area, from the baroque backwards. Also, perhaps another for chamber music - just a passing thought. These thoughts are prompted largely by the grouping of reviews in the BBC Music Mag. & Gramophone. Would be glad to know what others think.  |
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David Samuels
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« Reply #1 on: 12:35:30, 15-02-2007 » |
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Good idea, Gamba. Count me in. I bet Anna would be interested as well.
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richard barrett
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« Reply #2 on: 14:43:20, 15-02-2007 » |
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An early music board would be a very good idea, I think.
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #3 on: 16:47:53, 15-02-2007 » |
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I wouldn't have anything against it as long as we all knew where to find each other. I don't personally have a compartment in my head for Baroque-and-earlier which is separate from the Classical-and-later one and it might be a little trying to have to go up a layer on the site each time I want to switch from Mahler to Telemann... I don't know if that might be an issue. Imagine, where would you put mumblesford's Bach-vs.-Mozart thread? (Yes, I know, in the bin, but you know what I mean in principle...) These thoughts are prompted largely by the grouping of reviews in the BBC Music Mag. & Gramophone. Personally I prefer reviews to be grouped as they are in Diapason (no surprises there!) - just one alphabetical sequence whether it's early or new, orchestra or chamber or opera. Even they don't have so many reviews each month that you can get lost in the mag. With one magazine I write for there really has been a case when there was a disc with a chamber orchestra which had a couple of vocal items; it was music for film but it was a silent film so it was sort of free-standing. So we didn't know whether it was opera or vocal or orchestral and if the orchestra had been much smaller chamber might have been an option as well...  |
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reiner_torheit
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« Reply #4 on: 16:49:47, 15-02-2007 » |
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I'm another in favour of an Early Music board... especially as the Early Music Show is to have no board of its own on the official BBC R3 site....
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John W
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« Reply #5 on: 16:58:19, 15-02-2007 » |
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Well as a compromise we could ask Michael for a board devoted to the show specifically, so call it The Early Music Show. It would be the home at least of music up to say 1700, and since the later Baroque (up to the Bach family) are occasionally featured in the show then those shows on those composers would be valid topics on the Early Music board. Once this board settles down, some time into the new R3 schedule say, the Topics can be re-arranged, renamed, and individual threads can be relocated to suit us, well some of us  John W |
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David Samuels
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« Reply #6 on: 17:28:29, 15-02-2007 » |
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John:
I think that's and excellent idea. Why didn't I think of it?
Michael -- over to you.
David
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John W
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« Reply #7 on: 17:53:00, 15-02-2007 » |
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Thanks David,
I think the point I also meant to make there was that, in my opinion, this board should aim to align itself more with BBC Radio 3 than with the agenda (and layout) of Gramophone or any other music magazine.
John W
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ciaccona
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« Reply #8 on: 18:04:55, 15-02-2007 » |
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I had in mind a board that was wide-ranging not only in terms of music from a particular historical period but also subject matter. For example, to look at instrumentation, ornamentation, early instruments, style, discovering neglected composers etc.. Also, news & comment on CDs, DVDs & radio performances, concerts, recitals & so on around the country.
I mention this lest we become too hidebound & restricted in limiting it only to discussion of the BBC's week-end lunchtime programme.
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John W
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« Reply #9 on: 18:19:41, 15-02-2007 » |
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gamba, Yes of course all that too  , we are a community who can share and learn, e.g. I enjoy the audiophile threads, but I'm thinking to retain strong links with Radio 3 through the topic names of the music sections - not become just another classical forum. John W |
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John W
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« Reply #10 on: 23:41:47, 15-02-2007 » |
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Michael put up an empty topic 'The Early Music Show' so just by chance I saw it on the home page. I've started the ball rolling on the subject of Saturday's show but I think we'll be safe starting topics on any of the ideas from this thread - this isn't the official R3 forum John W |
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reiner_torheit
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« Reply #11 on: 23:44:07, 15-02-2007 » |
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Does anyone else think there might be scope for rolling-in other questions about HIP into the same board?
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« Reply #12 on: 23:46:45, 15-02-2007 » |
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Hm, but performance practice questions don't stop with early music... (Did I tell you about my stringy colleagues ladling great wodges of goopy vibrato all over a Boulez piece a couple of days ago? I did? Oh. Sorry.) |
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John W
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« Reply #13 on: 23:58:00, 15-02-2007 » |
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Reiner/Ollie, I take it by HIP you mean the 'authentic instruments' subject, gut strings and modern replicas etc. If we only get two threads, even long ones, on the subject then does it deserve another Section/Topic? More than two...... I think we just start threads in the classical section and Michael can tidy up things later  John W |
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« Reply #14 on: 10:45:15, 16-02-2007 » |
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Hm, but performance practice questions don't stop with early music... 'Zackly so Which is why I think they deserve somewhere to be discussed John, I must venture to disagree here. On the "old board" HIP topics came up if not often, then reasonably frequently. Most often they tend to be of the "oh puhlease won't these awful authentic-instrument people leave my favourite composer alone?" type (but that is valid too!), as well as more recondite questions. I think it's also a question of how far we want our new "home" here to be just a copy of the old place - or how much more it is capable of, and what new members may be attracted in by finding their specialisms and interests catered for? :-) |
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