<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 3/13/02 8:28:30 AM Central Standard Time, hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu (Conrad Hoffsommer) writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">>Anybody have any ideas on why an artist of his supposed caliber would do
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<BR>Other than the instructions at the beginning of the movement saying "senza
<BR>sordino", I can't think of a reason.
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<BR>I can't either. If you are going *alter* the music by using an instrument which is far larger with much longer sustain than anything Beethoven had and particularly, tune in a way which by all accounts Beethoven would never have had done, why take a small notation like that literally? It produced very dissonant sounds which for me, ruined it.
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Bill Bremmer RPT
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