Klarinet Archive - Posting 000956.txt from 2000/05

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Tone -- online experiment
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 16:48:28 -0400

<><> Tony Pay wrote:

But if I did find myself saying ['nice dark sound'] of someone, in a
complimentary way, what I would probably mean is that their sound didn't
*lack darkness* when darkness was necessary for the music. And if that
were so, I'd most probably want to say their sound was a 'rich' sound,
because if it were to be just dark, it would probably very quickly
become boring in most music, because it wouldn't speak that music
effectively.
The word 'speak' is quite crucial. Most music needs to speak, even
though some music doesn't. So I think the problem with the 'nice dark
sound' is that when it means something, it's being applied as the
opposite of 'unremittingly bright'. Otherwise it doesn't mean anything
much at all.

That was a primary lesson from today's class. Mr. Ormand asked one
of the students (I'm paraphrasing), "How do you accent a note
effectively?" The student was intelligent and replied, "Play the other
notes softly."
Evidently this is an oft-repeated concept in music (I haven't had
much formal instruction yet), and it makes sense to me.

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