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...methods involve the reconstruction of what seventeenth and eighteenth-century music actually sounded like when performed. He explains: "In all periods, you only have a certain amount of evidence that is passed on to you. Some of it is the most direct--the composer's marks on the page--some of it is circumstantial--the instruments or the voices that he suggests--some of it is even one circle further out--the context or the assumptions of the time. If you put all those together, I think you can get a pretty good working diagram of the arena in which...
...goal in view, however, is not an exact recreation of what someone in the eighteenth century would have heard, in the manner of an archaeological restoration, but rather an informed and sympathetic performance of a living piece of music. According to Hogwood, this has not always been clear...
...harpsichord maker convinced me that the noise I was hearing from the modern harpsichord I owned, colorful and varied though it was, was only an apology for the fact that no one sound on that instrument was a classical sound. He actually explained to me why, sitting at eighteenth century harpsichord, there is a classic quality to the sound, in that you don't need much variety with the style of playing and listening, which defends that instrument in its own right, and you don't need to apologize...
...team's spring season got off to a very shaky start with losses to 20th ranked Rice, 7th ranked North Carolina and 15th ranked Miami in March, resulting in the team's ranking plummeting from eleventh to eighteenth...
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