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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000054.txt from 2006/10

From: philfrei@-----.com
Subj: Re: [DR-L] practice makes perfect?... how much?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:05:15 -0400

I remember reading a post that said something about musician's brains
showing we associate music with physical movement (more than
non-musicians), but I took it differently. Not so much that tones
associate with the fingerings that engender them, but that the music
sounds like objects in motion. For example, if a accel or rit is
executed such that it correlates to how gravity might affect an object.
I'm thinking this is also the link to emotion: that motion's imply
emotion. My favorite example is the "sighing" oboe solo in Schubert's
"Unfinished". A beginner might just play the two notes, but to sell it,
if one is able to make it evocative of a real motion/emotion, that is
going to be a lot more musical.

A rich, source of info (theoretical) on motion and emotion can be found
in Rudolf Laban's work, on "effort qualities." He was a choreographer.
But his ideas seem very applicable and relevant to music, to me.

- Phil Freihofner

>Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:03:41 -0400
>To: doublereed@-----.org
>From: "Ed B. Flowers" <flowerse@-----.net>
>Subject: Re: [DR-L] practice makes perfect?... how much?
>Message-ID: <452A72DD.6050705@-----.net>
>
>Miriam,
>
>This probably explains why brain scans of people listening to music
>shows that musicians listen most differently of all. In our minds, we
>/finger /the music when we listen.
>
>Edward B. Flowers (ob)
>New York City

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