On 7/5/2019 4:01 PM, John Hardy wrote:
On 7/5/2019 7:49 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
gray_wolf* wrote:
On 7/4/2019 8:49 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
geoff* wrote:
In the case of much classical music, the composer hadn't even
considered
the possibility of there being any sort of 'recording'. So the
performance 'artifacts' were expected.
A really really good discussion of this is in Phillips' _Performing
Music
In the Age of recording_ which has some digressions but is well worth
reading for anyone interested in western art music.
And even in current times such music is composed with the aim being
performance, not manicured manufactured recordings.
Not half enough, if you ask me.
I was listening to some Benny Goodman big band stuff. Those guys
played!!
How could you record that in a studio?
The same way the Goodman band did.* With a couple microphones and a whole
lot of musicians and charts.
--scott
The first 10 minutes or more of the 1942 movie "Orchestra Wives" takes
place in a recording studio with Glenn Miller and his Orchestra and
others. It might be a great example of how they recorded it, although I
don't know how much of it was staged for the sake of the movie.
John Hardy
It's the first 6 minutes or so of the movie:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...148A&FORM=VIRE
John Hardy