Klarinet Archive - Posting 001006.txt from 2000/07

From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Listening for what's wrong
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:24:08 -0400

>Mark Twain said that the Mississippi was irrevocably changed for him when
he
>learned to navigate it. The effect in music is similar.

I live near (IL) and work in St. Louis and navigate the Mississippi twice a
day--Poplar Street Bridge in the morning and Martin Luther King Bridge in
the evening! :)

But, really, I think this above statement is so true. Since I've been
seriously studying music in school and learning to make my way playing, my
outlook on music has been drastically changed since I was a young
"whippersnapper" (which being only 21 I probably still fit that
description). I think especially since learning how to intelligently analyze
a piece of music, I can listen to the same pieces I had been familiar with
when I was younger and have a greater understanding of them now.
Orchestrationally, compositionally, and emotionally, that is.

As for listening for what is *wrong* in performances, it goes without saying
that one should be able to KNOW what is *wrong* and why so as not to imitate
the *wrong* things. Of course, this takes an amount (how much, who can say?)
of experince and guidance.

LacyS

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