Klarinet Archive - Posting 000321.txt from 1995/10

From: Dan Oberlin <oberlin@-----.EDU>
Subj: music/math
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:23:32 -0400

Like many of you, the first thing I do when I get to work each morning
is to read the email that came in the previous night. I subscribe to
two lists, the other being a calculus reform list. As I scroll
hurriedly through the morning mail. it is usually easy to tell w/o
looking at addresses from which list came a particular message. But I
did a double-take at this one:

> The recent discussion regarding calculators, and the analogy to football and
> music, reminds me that discussions are often a matter of perspective. Lou
> Talman commented, "...an orchestra with only clarinets boggles the mind."

(So even some of us mathematicians are narrow-minded!)

> Since my background includes both math and music, I can verify there are
> ensembles composed entirely of one instrument -- ie. flute choirs or
> orchestras, clarinet choirs, cello choirs, string ensembles, etc. These
> groups may have instruments of one size (cello choir); however, many times
> the instrument family will be represented in the ensemble (Eb clarinet,
> Bb clarinet, Alto Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contra-bass clarinet) etc. ....

Dan Oberlin