Klarinet Archive - Posting 000861.txt from 1998/11

From: "Scott Morrow" <scottdmorrow@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] 8va vs. 8basso
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 05:24:28 -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.

I don't see the problem, here! I have never seen 15ma before it was
brought up in discussion! But now that I have, I know what it means!
Likewise, if I'd encountered it in a piece of music, I'd've looked it up
and found out what it meant! I don't think it will confuse me in the
future!
-Scott

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