Continuing with Quantz goodies I'd like to use him to comment on what to embellish and what not to. We know that the French wrote down many (but not all) of the necessary embelishments and we know the French almost didn't embelish compared to the Italians who could be accused of overdoing it. I assume the Germans did it as well, being inspired by the French and Italians. So instead of asking when do we ornament, the question is when don't we? In chapter 12, paragraph 26, he sais "The majestetic admits few additions, but those that are appropriate must be executed in an elevated style". Perhaps there is nowhere that one shouldn't ornament, but rather how much should one ornament?

David has written new instructions on compiling Max/MSP externals using XCode

There is a great VSTi host for free available for mac at reFuse Software. It's ugly and it does the job great! And it's free. So I've finally been able to test the VSTi I made with Max/MSP and it works like a charm.

A short little update: now you can use the submit story/recording/photo buttons in the righthand sidebar to submit the material you'd like included on the blog. No need to register and create the blog entries yourself anymore.

Sorry about the long delay before writing. I am in the middle of moving to a new apartment and spend my days building and painting walls. But, Mogens' harpsichord is well in place, Craig has sent me one of his Carmichael's Modern Baroque Recorder that I'll be trying out as soon as I've finished moving. Also, we have some music in store for you to listen to and some pictures coming up. So stay tuned.