Jocelyn Wang ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> writes: > >>... You are assuming it is easy to divine the composer's intention. >> >>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, I wasn't addressing the question of repeats - I swore after the last go around that I wasn't gonig to get involved with that again. What I was saying is that divining the composer's intention - which you say are sacrosanct - is not always easy. And that even great composers have expressed their belief that the performer has to bring something to the party. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]