Re: The Bach choral dilemma (Martin Braun )

Subject: Re: The Bach choral dilemma
From:    Martin Braun  <nombraun(at)TELIA.COM>
Date:    Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:04:01 +0100

Well put, Pierre.

For artists, ambiguity is something to be smiled at,
for scientists, it's something to be frowned at.

Martin Braun



> Since I trust composers more than
> hearing theorists (or music theorists as a matter of fact), I am willing
to
> bet that the ambiguity is on purpose and at the service of the musical
> message. So, I would not get frazzled because somebody thinks that a
> particular passage is an example of streaming and I just cannot hear it
> that way -- Bach surely wanted it so.
>
> Pierre Divenyi