Klarinet Archive - Posting 000826.txt from 1998/11

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] 8va vs. 8basso
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:59:18 -0500

On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Lee Hickling wrote:

> I'm with Bill on this one. In more than three decades of active
> performing on several instruments, I've never encountered 15ma in a
> score. True, two octaves is 15 scale steps, but I'd scratch my head at
> it too--and I know a little Italian.

I teach theory and orchestration classes, and I have been teaching 15ma
for two octaves for nearly 40 years. The reason I use that terminology is
that that is exactly the interval which describes two octaves. That's
what all the textbooks I have ever seen say to call it. I have seen it
that way in published scores. I'm having difficult understanding why this
seems to many people on the list to be a revolutionary concept.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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