Klarinet Archive - Posting 001003.txt from 2002/06
From: w7wright@-----.net (William Wright) Subj: Re: [kl] Re: one-hour warm-up Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:17:21 -0400
<><> I wrote:
The path from mind to <body part> is less easily travelled by some of us
than by others.
....which was the point I was trying to make when I posted about
'counting' to exactly 5 gallons without looking at the gasoline pump.
Somebody (Richard Bush?) attributed my success to a sense of tempo, not
to dexterity. My feeling is that dexterity is propely defined as a
*timely* trip from mind to <body part>. Having a sense of tempo is not
the same as playing 'dexterously' (sp?) in tempo.
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What is the purpose of a language? =A0 To be beautiful or wise or
pleasurable in itself? Or to describe many different things ---
beautiful or not --- to other people? This is why the question of
whether music is a 'language' is relevant.
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