Klarinet Archive - Posting 000406.txt from 2002/09

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: "tooting your own horn"
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:55:03 -0400

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:58:34 -0700, Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.net> wrote:
>
> OK, if "tooting your own horn" bothers you,
>(which makes me very uncomfortable, feeling
>compelled to speak for myself), then whom
>would you suggest? There must be hundreds of
>people on the Klarinet List.

More than a thousand, the last time Mark posted the statistics.

>.... None of all those
>musicians caught the fact on their own, that the
>4th Movement is the ONLY time in all known
>Music History, (according to a growing list of
>Counterpoint Professors), that a Melody is Har-
>monized by it's own Retrograde-Inversion a
>Major 7th lower in Chromatic Modal (Non-12-
>Tone) Harmony!

And this paragraph does not strike you as "tooting your own horn"?
Complimentary or not, the term is accurate.

>If my works are so mediocre, then ...

I haven't heard a single person on this list claim that your works are
mediocre. In fact, I haven't heard anyone disparage your compositions at
all. All the negative comments I've seen are entirely aimed at the verbose,
pompous, jargonistic, and sesquipedalian nature of your posts.

There's nothing particularly wrong with "tooting your own horn". We should
all be our own biggest fans. However, after doing so, you should be neither
surprised nor offended when someone identifies it as such.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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