Klarinet Archive - Posting 000501.txt from 1998/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] 1234/2341
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:10:06 -0400

That's not what I understand by "accent". I meant is a property of
phrasing, not as a kind of musical diacritic.
Roger S.

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Roger Garrett wrote:

> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 07:46:19 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: "'klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: RE: [kl] 1234/2341
>
> 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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