Klarinet Archive - Posting 000489.txt from 2002/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Dark Sound
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:55:17 -0500

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:43:02 -0800, leeson0@-----.net said:

> Thank you Tony, I've never heard that before; that is, the assertion
> that an appogiature is bright while its resolution is dark. But is it
> possible to interpret that in terms of the emotion achieved by the
> presence of a dissonance (the appogiature) followed by a consonance
> (the resolution)? And if that is a viable interpretation, how does
> that notion apply to sound character?
>
> In other words, I can understand a dark mood (or an even more somber
> one, a "black" mood, or its opposite, the bright mood), while still
> being unable to transfer that knowledge to a dark or bright sound
> character.
>
> I can write a sentence and make its mood very dark by the inclusion of
> descriptive passages dealing with some fairly morose things. How can
> I do that with a sound character?

I don't think I know the answer to any of that. I wasn't wanting to do
anything other than find a use of 'bright' and 'dark' that we could
agree on.

Words like 'emotion' and 'mood' seem to me to be operating on a much
longer timescale. Appoggiaturas are useful tools in constructing
patterns of relationship that can reflect emotions or moods, but I don't
find one appoggiatura usually does very much for me. I suppose that
mirrors the fact that you wouldn't normally associate the emotion or
mood of a piece of writing with just one word.

Hence the joke: I agree with every word you say. It's just the order
you put them in that bothers me.

Tony
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