Klarinet Archive - Posting 000000.txt from 2001/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tenuto as force
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 03:48:50 -0400

I actually was thinking of modern scores of music which was not necessarily
modern.
In general, though - oh, dear, oh, dear....
Roger S.

In message <20011002.002922.54@-----.org writes:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:35:57 +0100 (GMT),
> roger.shilcock@-----.uk said:
>
> > I think wind players at rehearsals are obliged -- not too strong a
> > word -- to listen to what string players do with markings such as
> > little lines, little lines under slurs, dots under slurs, and so on.
> > It seems reasonable to regard the string players' interpretation as
> > the primary one, given that, at least in modern scores, such signs
> > have specific technical meanings for them.
>
> It's a nice idea. But I'm afraid that string players are just as
> subject to the notion that the meaning of such things is
> period-dependent, composer-dependent, and context-dependent. And of
> course, for purely statistical reasons, most modern scores are written
> by inferior composers.
>
> Another consideration is that run-of-the-mill string players are in
> general subjected to even more unjustifiably authoritarian teaching than
> run-of-the-mill wind players.
>
> Of course, if you're talking about a very good string teacher, as Sue
> clearly was, then that doesn't apply. And if you go to hear a great
> string player -- and few merely famous string players fall into that
> category -- you can also learn a great deal.
>
> But don't let's kid ourselves. The vast majority of string players are
> just as ignorant of the subtle uses of the bow as the vast majority of
> wind players are unaware of the possible varieties of attack on their
> own instruments, and how those varieties of attack may be achieved.
>
> Most string players would rather smarm it all over with vibrato.
>
> Tony
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