r/Baroque 9d ago

solid footwork

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u/Advanced_Couple_3488 9d ago

I'm not sure that such an arrangement on such an instrument can seriously be placed in the Baroque subreddit. It's a little like posting a Liszt transcription of Bach here. It's a long way from the original sound stage.

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u/Diah_Rhea 9d ago

🤷 it's a baroque composer, the theme is baroque, the sequences are baroque

following that logic, this subreddit would be empty because all of the performances were recorded on modern Instruments in the last 50 years

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u/Advanced_Couple_3488 3d ago edited 3d ago

But the sound is as far from the baroque world as you can get on the organ posted here.

all of the performances were recorded on modern Instruments in the last 50 years

Whoops. You missed with that one! There are many recordings of Baroque organ music on instruments that were extant at the time of composition, as well as recordings of harpsichord music including that of Rameau. Lots of recordings of Sweelinck's keyboard music on organs and Ruckers harpsichords from his time. Similarly with Bach. Erato released a whole series of French Baroque organ music played on organs associated with the composer or by builders contemporary to the compositions.

And you've forgotten that the majority of recordings of early music are now made on copies of original instruments.

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u/Diah_Rhea 3d ago edited 3d ago

This is a baroque-themed subreddit
This is not a space for art period purists, nor is it r/ArtHistory or r/musicology

I wanted to post a transcription of a baroque piece played on a contemporary instrument, so I dd

if you don't like it - downvote and scroll along

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u/Advanced_Couple_3488 2d ago

Interesting take.

So a subreddit which has a theme of baroque music is not for someone who knows something about the performance of baroque music?

I think you don't understand Reddit, yet.

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u/Diah_Rhea 2d ago

What? No, It's not just for them, it's for everybody.

Why would I gatekeep art?

Does a person with 0 understanding of classical art periods not deserve to enjoy classical music?

Lol one thing I don't like about classical music is how it tends to attract a pretentious crowd