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3 года назад
Great music, subtle performance! May I use a part of your recording on my channel? I'm preparing a video about dynamics and It would be great if I could show the echoes. I'll submit the link to your channel to my video. What I find interesting, as organist I used to play forte on lower keyboard and piano part on the upper (great vs postiv). How does it work in this instrument? Is the lower keyboard "lute" and upper "great"? I don't have extensive knowledge about cembali, just played about one year or so, so I am curious. And why is the lower keyboard like 4' voice (I mean one octave higher?) Oh, so much to learn!
Thanks a lot! Sure, feel free to re-use it with the credits and the link! I wrote a thesis on the Echoes with Sweelinck, it‘s quite an elaborate topic which needs a bit of time explaining. Here I try to recreate the usage of the renaissance double harpsichord (which didn‘t survive, actually all of them were massively altered later) which did emulate a renaissance organ through having an 8‘ and a 4‘ register on different manuals (the organs were an octave apart too). That‘s why - when you look at the score - you‘ll find the echoes written an octave lower, in order to reproduce the same pitches on a softer sounding division (either positive or brustwerk). On my instrument I can only use the 4‘ on the lower manual (like a positive) because it’s the copy of a Ruckers in an altered state (later 17th century).
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