Klarinet Archive - Posting 000857.txt from 2000/11

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Interpreting versus playing
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:38:17 -0500

> It's never occurred to me to be disturbed by the physical movement of a
> musician. The use of -- or lack of -- physical movement is completely an
> intimate thing between a musician and her/his music. A musician might be
so
> "into" the music that s/he *must* move to it, and I fail to see what this
> would have to do with the quality of the playing. The quality should
stand on its own.

There seem to me to be two separate issues where the motions of a performer
would have an effect on a musical performance. First, in a live
performance, we cannot completely divorce the visual element from the aural
one. If the motions of a performer seem to have little if anything to do
with the musical effect, that can be very distracting to the
listeners/observers. Second, excessive movement actually can detract from a
performers ability to play at the highest level of which they are capable.
If the brain is occupied in sending numerous neural signals to the muscles
which are controlling the choreography, that detracts from its ability to
control and send the signals which are necessary for musical performance.

Ed Lacy
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University of Evansville
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