Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>


>People in the 18th century were generally far less inhibited about
>referring to bodily functions than we are today.  I'm not sure how things
>are in German....

I can't offer any examples directly related to music but in a more general
vein here's passage form The Gallant Ethic, Johann Christian Barth, Dresden
and Leipzig 1731:

   "If you pass a person relieving himself you should act as if you had
   not seen him, and so it is impolite to greet him."

Denis Fodor