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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> There is more to music than is contained in the notes.
> Gustav Mahler.
This is, of course, true, but there is nothing contained in the repeat sign
beyond the instruction to repeat a passage. If a composer considered the
repeat optional, he was at liberty to specify that.
>... You are assuming it is easy to divine the composer's intention.
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>If it were, then we shouldn't have HIP versions of Beethoven 9 with very
>different tempos for the tenor solo - the scholars don't agree about the
>interpretation of Beethoven's metronome marks.
Again, there may be reasonable scholarly disagreements on such matters,
but that has nothing to do with the instruction to repeat, which is
unambiguous.
-Jocelyn Wang
Culver Chamber Music Series
Come see our web page: www.bigfoot.com/~CulverMusic
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