Klarinet Archive - Posting 000508.txt from 1995/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Performance practice issues
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:34:23 -0500

Adam inquires about performance practice. I may be mistaken but
I offer the hypothesis that no subject has been written about more
thoroughly (no musical subject that is) than the subject of
performance practice. There have to be at least 200 articles and
50 books on the subject. Neal Zaslaw did a volume at least 15
years ago that was a summary of various articles on the subject.

It is easy to get to read about the subject. Some of it is very
good. Some of it is less so. I don't want to comment on which
is which.

Just go to your public library and do a keyword search on the
term "Performance Practice." You'll be overwhelmed and drowned.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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