Re: Standard notation or By Ear for New Tunes
Originally Posted by
Tim2723
The problem is, of course, that we can't ask Beethoven.
Beethoven's music has been reinterpreted through generations of publishers, each who added their own contributions. This was standard practice until recently, when people started to realize that perhaps we should get back to the original scores and see if we can actually identify the composer's intent, without looking at it through the lens of everything that came after.
What's important, I think, is that there's an incredible, exciting, world of music passed down to us, if we just dip into it and try to understand it on its own terms. Beethoven was a great improviser; would he really want us to have less of that joy?
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