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Applause between movements should be required in HIP performances...

...because it was the norm before the twentieth century. What we have substituted is coughing between movements. When a composer ends a movement with a climax that clearly is meant to draw applause, the usual response is to discharge the desire to clap by coughing. In Beethoven's time, it was common to play single movements from symphonies. Why not now? Jazz performances continue to encourage audience participation even though clapping after every solo has become so routinized that it's lost a lot of its spontaneity.



Edits: 10/02/16

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