Klarinet Archive - Posting 000555.txt from 1998/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Oh frabjous day!!
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:20 -0500

Keyboard and brass instruments have both changed more radically more
recently than woodwind instruments. Both Chopin and Brahms were accustomed
to smaller, less resonant types of piano which enabled the
individual notes in complex left-hand
parts to be more easily heard. I think it is fair enough to think that
their piano works would sound more as they would have expected them to be
heard if they were played on such instruments. Brass instruments are
*still* evolving; for example, I think it is only since 1945 - possibly
more recently -
that the bass trombone has been largely replaced by a bifunctional large
bore tenor/bass instrument. Modern trombones and trumpets in early- and
mid-nineteenth
century orchestral music are surely a bad idea.
Roger Shilcock

On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 14:06:22 -1300
> From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Oh frabjous day!!
>
> > From: MX%"klarinet@-----.36
> > Subj: Re: [kl] Oh frabjous day!!
>
> > Sorry, Dan, I sent this post in response to an earlier post of yours and then
> > you talked about the straight string pianos vs. modern pianos.
> >
> > I never thought of that.
> >
> > thanks for the info -- even though my husband is a music major, music history
> > is not his strong point, and I am a liberal arts major. Much of that is
> > stuff I am not readily exposed to .
> >
> > Roger -- about the Schubert, etc... is it better on period instuments for the
> > same reasons?
>
> Although you asked Roger this question, may I comment on the nature of your
> inquriy? I don't think that Roger said (and I know I did not say) that one
> way was better while the other was, by definition, worse.
>
> I tried very hard to use the term "different" rather than qualify it with
> matters of taste. And that the two are different is measurable and thus,
> accurate.
>
> One problem with the original instrument movement is that they keep saying
> that what they do is better. Well that may be for you or me or them, but
> it is not necessarily true for the whole world, and what is worse, it
> offends many people when this suggestion is offered as if it is true.
>
> It is at the same level of irritation as when I read on this list
> that a Buffet is better (or worse) than a Selmer or LeBlanc or anything
> else. For what such a statement is is only an expression of an opinion
> not a matter of technical fact. It may be true for the person who says
> it but it is not a technical truth that applies to everyone.
>
>
> >
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> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
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