[silence] More Atlas Eclipticalis

[Kraig Grady]

Yes i think we have all played the party game where one person says 
something in someones ear and passes it along. The notion that any 
classical work is played today like the composer intended it i think is 
a myth. Most piano music is played like modern music at speeds unheard 
of at the time. One has only to listen to early recordings to see how 
much removed we are. Precision has replaced something else.
    Other oral cultures are the same which recordings likewise show us.


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Joseph Zitt wrote:
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> The biggest issue, I think, is that while that worked well in small
> societies, where everyone lived relatively close together, problems
> arise in the desire of people to learn the music of other people from
> across the planet. There's also the issue that matters being
> communicated by word-of-mouth over the years inevitably lose
> information and get corrupted. One need only look at the wide variety
> of ideas about performing early music (or even what was meant by some
> fairly recent masters of jazz) to see that not everything survives
> even to a second generation of communication.
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