Klarinet Archive - Posting 000916.txt from 1999/07

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] school music programs(kinda defending corps too)
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 21:57:25 -0400

On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Paulette W. Gulakowski wrote:
> This comment is not specifically about Carmina, rather about any MB
> music.
> There are 200 band parents out there who CAN hum it, recognize it, seek
> it out in other venues. Some go out and buy tapes of the real thing -
> simply because they heard it in MB and liked it. They know the MB music
> way better than the concert music. There are also the kids from the
> other (opposition) band and their parents and other band geeks and band
> geek usetawases. These may not be "masses" but they are part of them.
> I'd probably put a chorus on the field with the band to do Carmina
> Burana. Folks would remember!

I can hum Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band too, doesn't mean I
understand it. The saddest thing is that they have no idea the form,
function, tonality, voicing, etc. of the work. All they can do is hum a
melody? This isn't music education - this is rote learning of best top 10
tunes.

Sorry - let's join the world of Music Education.

BTW....not all the parents can do that - nor the fans - just the ones who
went to the competitions. Tell me.....do they know when Orff lived? What
other pieces he wrote? What form the original work had??

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