Klarinet Archive - Posting 000024.txt from 2000/09

From: "Patricia Smith" <pattiesmith@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Phrasing With the Harmony
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 12:00:44 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:
"What actually happens is that they learn to *imitate* what we do;
against a background, we now know, of an innate ability to do exactly
that sort of imitation."
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."

I f I understand you, correctly Tony, what you are saying is that we not
only have the ability to synthesize spoken language; we also have the
ability to synthesize musical language. Our first musical mode of
expression are our own voices; I personally think the problem lies, at least
for some players, in the process of having the clarinet (or whatever
instrument) become an extension of the human body - becoming one with the
horn - so we can sing through it.
What I am unable to explain is what exactly goes on in the process of the
instrument becoming "part" of the body, as it were.
This is a very interesting thread to me.
Patty Smith

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