Klarinet Archive - Posting 000828.txt from 1998/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] 8va vs. 8basso
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:03:19 -0500

At 06:59 PM 11/21/98 -0600, Ed Lacy wrote:
>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.
>
I guess it is because we have never taken a class from you. :-) I do not
dispute the absolute correctness of the "15ma" terminology, only its
relative clarity. Like I said before, anyone who knows what "8va" means
should instinctively deduce what "16va" means, but will probably require
instruction to decipher "15ma" on a score. That's why "16va" seems to me
to be a more reasonable term to use, even if not *technically* correct. Or
is clarity not the point here? I guess you just have to know both.

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