Klarinet Archive - Posting 000275.txt from 2001/11

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The American Clarinet Sound
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 13:10:31 -0500

Isabelle, if you will search the archives of KLARINET, you will find a
very extensive discussion on the subject of national sound
characteristics including the "American Sound." It got sufficiently
complicated that I wrote a summary of what was said, though it may not
have covered the entirety of the views. My summary is also somewhere on
KLARINET and if you can't find it contact me privately and I'll send you
a copy.

However, the arguments fell into two camps. One argued strongly for the
existence of national sound characteristics including a German sound, a
French sound, an American sound, etc., and these people said that they
could identify such sounds. The other camp argued just as forcefully
and suggested that the assertions about a sound having a national
character were doo-doo and that it was impossible to state what the
nationality of a player was by virtue of the sound characteristics.

I even submitted a test to see if it were possible to conclude anything
on the subject and two players took the test. The results were
inconclusive.

For what it is worth, I deny the existence of the thing that you are
going to write about.

Oh yes. The title of the summary essay I did was, "If the sound is
lovely, this must be France," which was a takeoff on an old movie
entitled "If today is Tuesday, this must be Belgium."

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