Klarinet Archive - Posting 000872.txt from 2000/08

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Phrasing With the Harmony
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:52:17 -0400

Tony Pay wrote,
>So there's a lot to be said, in my view, for the very ancient trick of
>having people play instruments the way they *sing* -- and singing
>includes words, which have their own stress patterns that may or may not
>coincide with the harmony. And by the way, I'm talking about *proper*
>singing; that is, of songs, not operatic crap.
>
>So I think that to begin with, we should *sing* to them, or have their
>mothers or grandmothers sing to them; and then, we should encourage them
>to play the way they sing, in its full complexity. The exercises I'm
>talking about are designed to give them the ability to do that sort of
>thing from the start, on the instrument.
>
>Wojja think?

Oh, I'm so glad you said, "not operatic crap." To think that I've always
labelled myself a horrible singer, when the problem was really the operatic
crap, not my voice. Songs? *Real* songs? Oh, yeah, hey, I can do songs!
Lemme see, I know . . . .

"Bang, Bang, Another One Bites the Dust"
"The Worms Crawl In, The Worms Crawl Out"
"Land of 1000 Dances"
"There's a Place in France...." (but that one's really better with an oboe)
"On Top of Old Smokey, All Covered with Grass...."
"On Top of Old Rover, All Covered with Fleas...."

Which of the Crusell concerti is it where you can sing theme and variations
on "Inka Dinka Doo" to the third movement...? Warp their little minds young,
that's what I say. Give 'em a head start on grade school....

;-)
Lelia

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