Klarinet Archive - Posting 000279.txt from 2001/11

From: Stan Geidel <sgeidel@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The American Clarinet Sound
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 13:43:50 -0500

Dan's article is available online at
http://www.ocr.sneezy.org/articles/leeson4.html

Regards,
Stan Geidel
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] The American Clarinet Sound

> 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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> ** Dan Leeson **
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