Klarinet Archive - Posting 000970.txt from 2003/04

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Theory & Composition books
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:45:06 -0400

Now my memory is clearing. (I've tried so hard to block it all out.)

When I took theory, I was also coping to learn to read and even hear
internally bass clef. That was good, because I needed to be expanded
from my one note at a time, treble clef only clarinet background. The
bad part for me was that I had to perform my four part harmony efforts
on the piano. I had no piano background and had a terrible time. The
piano players in the theory class had it aced. I also feel they had a
lot of it aced because a lot of the harmony they came up with was a
part of what their fingers told them to do. They had learned the
patterns without knowing the theory from their experiences at the
keyboard. I felt that it was unfair, that the playing field was not
level. I still feel that a grade should have been given for my harmony
efforts and not my non piano playing skills or lack there of.

Oh well. I survived college and theory. All in all, I enjoyed myself,
made friends for life, found a wife now going on 40 years and still in
the making, so I can't complain.

On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 12:34 PM, Neil Leupold wrote:

> --- Benjamin Maas <benmaas@-----.com> wrote:
>
>> Aldwell and Schacter has a lot of great information.... That said,
>> it is
>> also very boring... well, dry reading. I have many bad memories of
>> 8am
>> theory class and having to trudge through this stuff... <G>
>
> It's all subjective, of course. I found it reasonably accessible, but
> granted, somewhat
> incomplete. There are certainly more thorough theory texts available.
>
> Neil
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