Hawk Henries
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On youtube there are a few videos featuring the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra playing Bachs Brandenburg Concerti. For me what is remarkable about these videos is that the orchestra is standing while playing. Though they have music stands/sheet music in front of them it does not appear that they are reading from it.
I was chatting with a woman who is a former recorder player in a baroque orchestra and she suggested that in the past this is how baroque orchestras played - standing...
The FBO also moved/danced quite a bit while playing which was beautiful to watch kind of like a human vu meter to the music.
Was this practice of standing more common in early baroque as opposed to middle or late? Did the practice wane as orchestras became much larger towards the late baroque early classical?
Are you aware of any orchestras who routinely stand while playing today?
One last question: The FBO appeared to be not reading from their music sheets. If this is the case the music must have been memorized. Was memorizing music more of a common practice historically?
I was chatting with a woman who is a former recorder player in a baroque orchestra and she suggested that in the past this is how baroque orchestras played - standing...
The FBO also moved/danced quite a bit while playing which was beautiful to watch kind of like a human vu meter to the music.
Was this practice of standing more common in early baroque as opposed to middle or late? Did the practice wane as orchestras became much larger towards the late baroque early classical?
Are you aware of any orchestras who routinely stand while playing today?
One last question: The FBO appeared to be not reading from their music sheets. If this is the case the music must have been memorized. Was memorizing music more of a common practice historically?
Neither was the harpsichordist standing...
