I thought I'd just add one more piece of information if you all don't mind. Improvisation like I said before was a big thing during this time. We have many written out examples from the period of what was considered good improvisation. Here is one of them. The middle staff with all the plain notes is the original solo violin. This is what you normally hear in modern style recordings today. The top staff however is an original written out example of what violinists were expected to improvise in performance back then:
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
