ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) (04/24/85)
Let us not forget John Ferrante, with his four-octave (!!) range.
gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) (04/24/85)
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> Let us not forget John Ferrante, with his four-octave (!!) range.
Nor Andrea Von Ramm, a natural alto who trained herself to sing
way into the baritone range.
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>> Let us not forget John Ferrante, with his four-octave (!!) range. >> Nor Andrea Von Ramm, a natural alto who trained herself to sing >> way into the baritone range. Nor Julius Eastman (in Maxwell-Davies' ``8 Songs for a Mad King''). 4 octaves, you said?
wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (05/03/85)
> > Nor Andrea Von Ramm, a natural alto who trained herself to sing > way into the baritone range. > -- > ken perlow ***** ***** Aha! A mention of one of my favorite musical people! I had the good fortune hear Ms. von Ramm live, when the Studio der Fruehen Musik played here in St. Louis at Washington University, back in the 60's when I was a student there. I believe that the Studio had some sort of affiliation with the University at that time. Anyway, those performances, coupled with the discovery of other early music in the library there, inspired in me a love for medieval and renaissance music that I have since indulged by accumulating many records of such music. I have tried to collect all the records by the Studio der Fruehen Musik (we need an ASCII umlaut!), but I haven't seen a discography anywhere. Does anyone on the net have access to such a listing? If so, could it be posted or could you mail me a copy? (Or I'll pay for copying & USnail, as usual...) More queries -- what has Andrea von Ramm done besides participate in the Studio der Fruehen Musik? And can anyone post or email me information about this group, including their current status (I don't even know if they still exist) or their history (changes in membership over the years, critical reviews and info on their development in performance styles or anything else, etc.)? And on early music in general: all I know about the subject is what I've gleaned from hundreds of record jackets. Anybody want to recommend books or references on the subject? (I know *nothing* about music, per se, so I'd get more out of books that didn't expect a technical musical background...) It's interesting... I've built my classical collection by emphasizing early music and am just starting to think about expanding into the Baroque (to add to the usual assortment of standards and warhorses I and everyone else already have...). Maybe, if I live to 80 or so, I'll make it up to Romantic... Regards, and thanks for giving me an opening to get into all this... Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA
berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) (05/06/85)
In article <10393@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes: > >And on early music in general: all I know about the subject is what I've >gleaned from hundreds of record jackets. Anybody want to recommend books >or references on the subject? (I know *nothing* about music, per se, so >I'd get more out of books that didn't expect a technical musical background...) I rather like R. Hoppin's MEDIEVAL MUSIC, Norton, 1978, ISBN 0 393 09090 6 It DOES tend to get technical, though. I picked it up in like-new condition at a used book store for $5.00, and have since learned that it is a rather standard college text on the subject. It ties together with the Norton ANTHOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL MUSIC. I'm finding it useful for the anthology of medieval Polish Christmas carols I'm editing... (In my copious spare time) -- Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900 (kerch@lll-tis.ARPA)
steve@brl-tgr.ARPA (Stephen Wolff <steve>) (05/14/85)
In article <10413@brl-tgr.ARPA> version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA brl-tgr!wmartin wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes: >........................................Anybody want to recommend books >or references on the subject? Hoppin is fine for the mediaeval stuff. Moving right along, however, to the Renaissance: The classic text is "Music in the Renaissance" by the late Gustav Reese (Revised Ed'n, W. W. Norton & Co. 1959, ISBN 0 393 09530 4); it's over a thousand pages and for a hobbyist like me a lifetime's worth of bedtime reading. Look also in your library for "The New Oxford History of Music" of which the first three volumes go through the 17th century (stay away from the accompanying record set "The History of Music in Sound" as their interpretive & instrumental style is sadly out of date. Smaller and more recent is "Music in the Renaissance" by Howard Mayer Brown (Prentice- Hall 1976, ISBN 0 13 608497 in paperback). And for the really dedicated hacker there is the magazine "Early Music" published by Oxford University Press; I was a charter subscriber but quit in 1980 when the price went to $22.00 for four issues per year.... -- Stephen Wolff