Klarinet Archive - Posting 000231.txt from 2000/11

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Decrescendo v Diminuendo
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 10:31:55 -0500

Hi Annie
I am not exactly clear on why you are writing *me*, seeming to defend
yourself for originally using the term decrescendo. I was simply replying
to Tony Wakefield who wrote that he thought decrescendo was not a real
world, by quoting my Harvard Dictionary that it *is* a real word. I use
decrescendo constantly in my band classes and despite the most recent post
by Tony against its use, am still happy with it (all of the above *spoken*
with a soft voice harbouring no malice or accusatory tones). Have you
perhaps mixed me up with someone else?

Best wishes!

Audrey

Anne Lenoir wrote:

> Dear Audrey,
> This is Annie here, the one who used that horrible term,
> "decrescndo". I have always prided myself in not being an intellectual.
> The word "diminuendo" wouldn't have served my purposes either, because
> when I hit the register key, I am actually crescendoing (is that also
> bad English) into an immediate "soft" note that holds and fades. I am
> the one who has to play my long tones, and I choose not to make a
> "diminuendo" but to hold and fade. O.K.? You had to be there. The
> process can't be described over the internet. It has to be demonstrated
> in person. Anyhow, I am on my way to Kinko's to fax him the long tones.
> I'm glad that I never made it to graduate school, nor will I ever,
> except to participate in somebody elses concert. ANNIE
>
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