Welcome to the Early Music Blog. This project was started by Niklas Saers after discussing it with a couple of friends and will hopefully be a place where people interested in early music will post their thoughts and stories and link up other early music blogs. I hope that you will find this site interesting ...
In this first post I'd like to talk about Pierre Philidor's notation of ornaments and what this might mean. The ornament in question is the grace note leading up to the second quarternote in the third bar:
In this last quote Mattheson's Der vollkommene Capellmeister, we go back to religion. There are just a few things that a good capellmeister cannot afford not to know:
"...to God even a thousand years is like the day which passed yesterday, and the angels' days are years, as is known by the theologians." Mattheson quotes Luther here ...
