Klarinet Archive - Posting 000720.txt from 1998/01

From: "reedy" <mwhight@-----.uk>
Subj: Re a vibrato experiment
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:44:45 -0500

Jonathan Cohler has hit the nail right on the head with this posting.

The greater the number of tone colours available to a musician the better
but with that choice comes a responsibility to use them wisely.

Often the most difficult choice is not to use an effect which was the point
of my first post. This is all a matter of personal taste but our decisions
about what is good taste should be informed and not completely instinctive.

My comment about the Second Viennese School and others refers to the
departure of the natural order of the harmonic series in atonality. If we
can only find harmony in harmony based on the harmonic series why is this
and so much other music as satisfying as it is?

Moreover if we accept that the human ear gravitates to the harmonic series
then the whole concept of natural intonation would form an integral part of
every society.Western society has left it behind for the most part.

I think that the concept of vibrato somehow being inbuilt to the human
experience poetic but somehow unbelievable.In any case it's not important to
our initial discussion about when to use vibrato. We have already
established that we all want to use it appropriately.

Michael Whight