Klarinet Archive - Posting 000472.txt from 2002/11

From: b5w@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Dark Sound
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:55:00 -0500

Tony Pay wrote:
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.

Tony, obviously I don't know anything about your teaching methods in
your Italian class, but I assume that you give a combination of lectures
to a small group and individual lessons.

Presumably the content of your individual lessons will vary, depending
on what you've heard from the student, but would you be willing to post
a few screenfulls here about what I would hear regarding appoggiaturas
and their resolution if I were sitting in the one of the group lectures?

Or is this asking for a 'freebie'?

Regards,
Bill

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