Klarinet Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 2002/10

From: "Kent Krive" <k.krive@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: tunes
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:36:32 -0400

Good, Bill :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] RE: tunes

> At 07:53 AM 10/1/2002 -0400, Kent Krive wrote:
> >I thought perhaps you were going to opine that the use of "tunes," i.e.,
> >melodies already known to beginners, hampers the development of
note-reading
> >skills. I would agree with such a contention, given that the students do
not
> >need to be thoroughly assiduous about their note-reading in order to play
> >what they already know (although this would promote playing by ear...
> >certainly a worthy objective).
> >
> >Perhaps the most bothersome of situations to me, as a teacher, involved
the
> >simplification of well-known melodies in beginning band books, "setting
up,"
> >as it were, note-reading errors, as tunes were played as originally
learned
> >rather than the way they were notated in the book.
>
> Ah, but that is the trick! You catch the ones who are playing by ear with
> those subtle changes.
>
> Bill Hausmann
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
>
>
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