Klarinet Archive - Posting 000728.txt from 2003/08

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] 'Measuring' music (was: Rossi and Patricola vs Buffet)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:32:52 -0400

Forest Aten wrote:

If you want to add a subjective set of criteria....do by all means.

Forest, if you step back a few paces and look at this, do you seriously
recommend that choice of instrument be based only on objective criteria?
Perhaps I should ask what the word "objective" means to you?

The number of keystrokes before a spring fails (when depressed in a
certain well-defined manner) is objective. But even the measurement on
your tuner's dial is only partly objective --- because it's impossible
to quantify the embouchure that produced the pitch and/or the timbre
that accompanied the pitch; and therefore you must ask whether you could
have obtained the desired pitch "if only you had wanted to adjust your
embouchure" or "if only you had been willing to accept the timbre"; and
so forth.

Why does objective vs. subjective matter? Why should we discuss this?
Because IMO you're in danger of emasculating music (most 'art' forms, in
fact) if you pay attention only to aspects that can be quantified.

Again IMO, part of the decision process has to be: "Wow! This feels good
to me! This is IT!"

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