Klarinet Archive - Posting 000257.txt from 2003/02

From: "Elizabeth Berry" <MarchinCharger88@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Klarinet 101: Performance
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 16:59:50 -0500

No, they are not contradicting themselves. Consider Twinkle Twinkle Little
Star. It's a portion of one of Mozart's pieces. And yet there are about 50
different ways of playing it!!!! Yet we still call it Twinkle Twinkle Little
Star whether it's played with traditional quarter notes or if it's played
with 32nd notes or syncopated rhythms. It's just like talking. You can say
the word "yes" in many different ways. "Yes, I'd like another piece of pie,"
"Yes, ma'am", "Yes! We won!" "Yeah, yeah, whatever you say", "Yes, 'you're
highness'". You say the same thing based on your mood and the situation.
Staying true to the music is. um. a little weird if you ask me. I don't know
where the line is between staying true and not is, and I don't think anyone
knows where it is. There's nothing wrong with adding your own dynamics,
phrasing, styles, grace notes, all that good stuff.

~*Elizabeth*~
If all the world's a stage, I want better lighting.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Raibeck" <cactus@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Klarinet 101: Performance

> You are being too literal. What I understood her to say was that in
general,
> the personal expression/interpretation (as opposed to merely a robotic
> rendering of the notes) that the performer brings to the piece is what
tends
> to makes it interesting.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Pay" <Tony@-----.uk>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 03:00
> Subject: [kl] Klarinet 101: Performance
>
>
> > End of Term Essay
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Apropos a disputed note in a clarinet sonata, Marlena wrote on the
> > internet:
> >
> > > I mean, in general, if u play music as it is written, it almost makes
> > > u fall asleep. U have to put yourself into it, change tempo, dynamics,
> > > right?
> >
> > Outline the arguments both for and against this view of performance.
> > You should include the notions of 'being faithful to the text' and 'not
> > having the audience fall asleep'. Are these contradictory notions? If
> > not, how do excellent performances resolve the seeming contradiction?
> >
> > Tony
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