Klarinet Archive - Posting 000500.txt from 1998/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] 1234/2341
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:46:19 -0400

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Roger Shilcock wrote:

> Roger G.
> I don't see why "judgemental" should be a term of abuse. I agree I'm short
> of a basis to make any judgement about your own playing - and I'm sorry if
> you thought otherwise. What I understood by "accent" *is* what you thought
> I meant. However, I don't understand what you're saying here. What is the
> "high point in the airstream"? If a teacher said that to me, I would
> certainly press him/her (?!) hard to change his/her terminology.
> Yours (not actually with hostility),
> Roger Shilcock

I don't view judgemental as abusive - but I find it to be unecessary when
not enough information is present to form a judgement about someone's
playing. I also wonder if it is necessary to link that judgement with a
comment that infers bad playing and/or an example of bad "properties" of
playing. I find that to be somewhat abusive.

Beyond that - an accent is a mark that is added to a piece of music that
requires something additional on top of what is already there. Now I
understand that different composers interpret articulation markings such
as accents in an infinite number of ways, but when someone says accent
that note - it means something entirely different than direct your air
stream toward that note....or.....make that note the high point of the
phrase.........

I really don't think my terminology is out of the mainstream. But I do
view the initial reaction to my first post as a problem with semantics
more than one that is conceptual.

Roger Garrett
IWU

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