Klarinet Archive - Posting 000497.txt from 1998/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] 1234/2341
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:20:18 -0400

I suspect both RG and DS actually *make* accents from to time, whether
they
like them or not.
Roger S.

On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Roger Garrett wrote:

> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 09:07:21 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: "'klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: RE: [kl] 1234/2341
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> Hmmmmm.......
>
> I'll call Daivd Shifrin and tell him his advice represented bad properties
> of american woodwind playing.
>
> :)
>
> Roger Garrett
> IWU
>
> On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Roger Shilcock wrote:
>
> > I don't like this idea at all. It could explain a lot about the
> > bad properties of American
> > woodwind playing (not denying there are good ones, too)......
> > Roger S.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Roger Garrett wrote:
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> > > Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 20:31:49 -0500 (CDT)
> > > From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
> > > Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> > > To: "'klarinet@-----.org>
> > > Subject: RE: [kl] 1234/2341
> > >
> > > On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Kevin Fay (LCA) wrote:
> > >
> > > > The Tabuteau approach was designed to train the player to remove this
> > > > crutch. In a string of 16th notes, *none* should be accented unless there
> > > > is a musical reason for doing so.
> > > >
> > > > Many pieces call for emphasis of the downbeat. Many fool with the accent,
> > > > however--because we're thinking oboe, take the Scherzo of Beethoven 6 as an
> > > > example--where the emphasis is emphatically not on the bar line.
> > > > Tchaikovsky 4, or Romeo & Juliet. The Grand Partita. These are not
> > > > marches--why play them like one?
> > > >
> > > > Which leads to the real rule--"no false accents!"
> > >
> > > Why accent at all? You either head for an arrival point, arrive at an
> > > arrival point, or come away from an arrival point in classical literature.
> > > It's that simple - accents are non-essential - but the arrival point is
> > > indicated by the high point in the air stream combined with (hopefully)
> > > some kind of cadence/tension/release point in the phrase.
> > >
> > > Roger Garrett
> > > IWU
> > >
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