Klarinet Archive - Posting 000270.txt from 1998/06

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] musical terminology
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 01:40:25 -0400

> I've always had an instinctive reaction against calling instrumental music
> "songs" as in "My band's playing some great songs by Holst next term",
> thinking to myself 'sing a song, play a piece'. Am I being stuffy?

Nah - it kinda bugs me, too, whenever I hear that, and I'm a young 'un. I
generally refer to band or symphonic repertoire as work(s), piece(s),
literature, or score(s).

Shouryu Nohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe; ICQ 6771552
Coffee Drinker, Musician, Otaku, Jesus Freak, Admirer of Women
(Not necessarily in that order)
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