Klarinet Archive - Posting 000822.txt from 2001/10

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Teaching Overblown Harmonics Isn't New
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:56:05 -0400

Yup - I goofed. You aren't the only one to point it out - thanks!

Best,
RG

At 11:43 AM 10/25/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Isn't it "rote?"
>
>At 06:12 AM 10/25/01 -0500, you rote: <snip>
>>Finally - a few words about the Suzuki Method and teaching by
>>wrote. <snip> Teaching by wrote is a very important tool in the overall
>>scheme of teaching and learning to play a musical instrument - but by age
>>10 or 11, students should be doing a lot of work in the area of reading
>>music. New concepts taught by wrote are important. It is just as
>>important to reinforce those new concepts with written notations and
>>rhythms, and I would hope that any approach to teaching beginning band
>>would keep all students, clarinetists or otherwise, actively involved to
>>that end.
>>
>>Best,
>>Roger Garrett
>>
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>George Kidder
>Senior Scientist and Instrumentation Officer
>Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory
>Salisbury Cove, ME
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Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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