Klarinet Archive - Posting 000280.txt from 1997/05

From: Douglas Sears <dsears@-----.org>
Subj: Re: College Auditions)
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:02:42 -0400

On Fri, 9 May 1997, Roger Shilcock wrote:

> Why people need *books* for scales? It's much more instructive to write
> them out yourself. For one thing, it teaches you to write music so that
> you can read it - useful and maybe revealing???
> Roger Shilcock

Without disagreeing with the value of learning to write music notation,
I'd like to go a step further: why do people need written music of any
sort for scales? It seems to me that scales and arpeggios are the most
basic stuff of music, which everyone should be able to learn by ear and
play from memory almost without thinking.

--Doug

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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears