Klarinet Archive - Posting 000840.txt from 2002/07

From: @-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Time for a moderated list? (Even further off topic)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 06:12:59 -0400

--- Kimber <wolfcry01@-----.com> wrote:

> Does being facetious effect your playing at all? I am sarcastic a lot, which
> is why I use the word so much. But I was wondering if it could have any
> effect on the way you play, like grief and love and hate do?

I'd say that your facetiousness, like your grief and love and hate, doesn't
have a direct effect on the way you play. But your ability to be in touch with
your possibility for facetiousness, like your ability to be in touch with your
possibility for grief, love and hate, does have an effect on the way you play.

What you're expressing in music isn't what *you* feel, but what the music wants
to express. So someone who has available all the things you mention above is a
more ideal medium for the expression of music than someone who doesn't.

It's more subtle than that, too. Some music may not need grief, love, hate or
facetiousness for its full expression. But it tends to be true that if you
can't express those, your expression of what the music *does* need is likely to
be limited too.

A simple example is that if there are two people, one who can't shout and one
who can, then the one who can't shout can't express anything by speaking
quietly, whereas the other one can. And the strange thing is that we can
experience that as being true *even if neither of them ever shouts*.

Tony

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