Klarinet Archive - Posting 000388.txt from 1998/06

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] musical terminology
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:52:56 -0400

Shoe <joshcole@-----.Edu> wrote:
>... A girl in the clarinet section
>announced that she was missing two of the "songs" we were playing, and
>suddenly a volcano erupted from this clinician. He ran over to her and
>promptly asked, "Are you singing or something?" Confused, she answered,
>"No." He replied, "Then why did you just call it a song??!??! They're
>pieces!!" He then gave us a 5-minute speech in a very loud voice about
>the differences between pieces and songs and how one should never, _ever_
>refer to instrumental music as "songs"...

I hope I would have had the presence of mind to react to that: "You know, there
are many decaffeinated brands which taste just as good as caffeinated."

One of the assistant directors at my college referred to everything as a
"chart". At the time, I thought this was a bit casual, but over time I've come
to think of this as technically quite accurate.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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