Klarinet Archive - Posting 001000.txt from 1998/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: On teaching (was Charlie Neidich etc...)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:20:03 -0400

At 10:30 PM 4/16/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-04-16 20:33:41 EDT, you write:
>
><< The point I am trying to make is how much teaching should be
> specific criticism of performance elements vs analysis of
> compositional details? >>
>
>Wouldn't that depend on who was being taught? If a teacher was addressing
>high level grad students, who had ample technique and musical understanding,
>the analysis aproach would probably be more benneficial. The average student
>is probably not mature enough to understand musical (historical) analysis and
>should be instructed accordingly. I've played the Mozart Concerto and
Quintet
>(on bassett clarinet) and play it close to what I think Mozart wanted. I was
>first coached on performance basics (i.e. crescendo here, eingang there) and
>then on the analysis and reasoning behind why it was done. Maybe the two
>elements go hand in hand?
>
I absolutely believe in the basic method for teaching young children
manners, behavior, etc. ("...because I TOLD you so, that's why!"). But by
the time one is capable of attempting the Mozart Concerto, the reasoning
skills will have developed to the point that analysis is required. Who
ever heard of a teen-age kid accepting ANYTHING an adult says on faith anyway?

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