Klarinet Archive - Posting 000467.txt from 2002/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Dark Sound
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:54:55 -0500

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:04:18 -0800, timr@-----.com said:

> No, we don't! That's the ENTIRE point of this very long discussion.
> There is no concensus on what "dark" means. One man's "dark" is
> another man's "warm", one man's "velvet" is another man's "bright".
> These are completely subjective terms. What is the opposite of
> "dark" playing? Is it "bright"? Is it "white"? What makes it so?

I think that if we were to look at a very small part of someone's
playing, we would achieve a consensus.

For example, I think we would all agree that an appoggiatura should
almost always be 'bright', and its resolution 'dark'.

On the other hand, I've sometimes thought, particularly while teaching,
that if only we could get people to recognise what an appoggiatura is,
why it resolves, and what bright and dark mean psychologically in that
resolution, we'd have gone quite a long way down the road of explaining
what musicality consists of.

So perhaps it's not so simple after all.

Tony
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... I think not, said Descartes; and promptly vanished.

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