Klarinet Archive - Posting 000669.txt from 2002/09

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] RE: tunes
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:07:31 -0400

--- Gene Nibbelin <gnibbelin@-----.com> wrote:

> Just checked my first book, the "Imperial Method" by C.L. Staats. No
> "tunes", just page after page of exercises, some from Klose, Etudes by Rose
> and a lot of originals.

> I never aspired to be a teacher and am happy that I'm not teaching clarinet
> in this "have to play tunes to stay interested" era.

Exercises are not tunes, granted, but you're saying that Rose etudes are not
tuneful? They're for technique, sure, but they're much more for phrasing and
musicality. Rose wrote some truly beautiful melodies -- tunes, if you will --
in those "exercises" of his. Maybe they're not generally recognized by the
public, but if Ode to Joy is characterized as a tune, surely the Rose etudes
qualify as well. Is it the "pop" nature of commonly recognized melodies that
makes them tunes in your book, a la Beatles and Beethoven?

Neil

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