Klarinet Archive - Posting 000526.txt from 1997/08

From: "C Henderson" <chenderson@-----.au>
Subj: Bright and clear
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:50:27 -0400

> Also, how do we define appropriate performance practice without using =

> terms like "dark," "bright," etc.? E.g., how do you describe the
> difference in sound between "period" instruments and late 20th century =

> instruments, if not in such terms?)

I'd just like to put my $0.02 in (although it's not worth as much as your=
s because of the rate of exchange between US and Australia). I think the=
"bright" terminology may be dependent on a linguistic understanding of =
the possible origin of the term. Although I don't know for sure where =
the description started, I postulate it may have been in France. Over =
there, they use the same word for "bright" as they do for "clear" (clair,=
which is why I know about it; my name means bright or clear). Could the=
original implication have been more "clear" than "bright"?

Incidentally, I like the allusion to Kant - sometimes it seems we split =
hairs on this list just like philosophers do!

Clare
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Clare Pascoe Henderson
variously clarinetist, writer/lecturer, herbalist
chook fanatic and menagerie manager
<chenderson@-----.au>
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