Recordings, Jazz & Notation?

Recording is exhilarating. And exhausting. Hours in a studio, or in Piffaro’s case, a “live-sound” church with great acoustics. Loads of research, and practice, and because Renaissance music, similar to jazz, is not always written out fully, there’s much discussion during rehearsals about “realizations.” Since the music notation didn’t contain every note, performers of the day developed an understanding of how the tunes were to be interpreted, or realized. But how do we know what the performers did back then? Come to our pre-show talks, or ask any one of the Piffaro players at our concerts, and they’ll tell you how.