Klarinet Archive - Posting 000233.txt from 2000/11

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Decrescendo v Diminuendo
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 12:25:59 -0500

Annie

Rereading your post to me, I now think perhaps I misread and misunderstood
your intent. Were you, in fact, agreeing with me? I am SO confused....
Cheers!

Audrey

Audrey Travis wrote:

> 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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