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Thread #164719   Message #3951809
Posted By: GUEST
20-Sep-18 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: Playing medieval music medievally
Subject: RE: Playing medieval music medievally
I always find this fascinating. How, exactly, do we KNOW that a tempo has slowed, sped up or whatever considering there are no MMs to go by.
"Largo" can be broadly interpreted and is seemingly played according to current fashion. Isn't historical performance really all just a guess?

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