You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: No one likes 466Hz... (Monteverdi Vespers...)
It would seem that the sheet music could be adapted and arranged to the modern style with bars and having the notes placed the modern way, rather than the way it was in the 17th century.
It seems it would be easier to read that way, and it would still sound as it should. Or would it be considered musical blasphemy to do that?
No, it isn't blasphemy... many "modern" musicians will do that.
However, by notating it in a modern way, you lose some nuance and add in extra "interpretation". For instance, most of the music is of a form that is polyphonal and cascading... with no real "lead" voice and no strong sense of a beginning or end... however, with the introduction of bars it already gives a sense of a beginning (the starts of the bars), a sense of on/off beat and all of that sort of thing... just to name a few things.
So, most people who play "Classical music" would do that... however, in our specialisation, we avoid doing that.... as the resetting of the music score does introduce a lens of sorts.