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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000050.txt from 2003/10
From: Jennifer Paull <jennifer.paull@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Re: bodybuilding and thought
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:18:39 -0400
Personally speaking, I must say that the vital organ for the musician
is the BRAIN. Its use is often optional. Developing it through exercise
to Olympic or - rather - Nobel proportions, is given to a few.
As Cathy Berberian used to say - singing is 90% intelligence and
10% voice. She hit the nail on the proverbial.
On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 08:43 pm, Charles Lipp wrote:
> Like most folklore, the idea of developing bodily
> strength to play a wind instrument dies hard.
I'm delighted to say that I never read that fairy story.
> A look at:
> defecation
> childbirth
> closed-throat,
> combat
> vital organs
THE BRAIN is the most VITAL organ.
>
> We work to find the minimal effort to move air with ease.
We work to create music from black dots on a page.
> A bellows like movement, not strength, makes air move
> through our instruments.
The BRAIN is what makes it happen, makes music come alive
and makes the composer heard instead of mute.
THREE CHEERS FOR THE BRAIN!!!
>
> Charles Lipp clipp@-----.com
"The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each
moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the
listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he
can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining.... If the
composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience
a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from
a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void....
When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he
forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than
our own."
-Claude L=E9vi-Strauss (b. 1908) French anthropologist
=93Overture,=94 The Raw and the Cooked (1964)
Silly fool, has he not heard of
> defecation
> childbirth
> closed-throat,
> combat
>
etc?
Jennifer
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Jennifer Paull,
Amoris International
http://www.amoris.com
Rare music at the press of an oboe and a computer key
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