Klarinet Archive - Posting 000291.txt from 2003/09

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinetist/Musician
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:08:19 -0400

At 05:13 PM 9/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>You go too far, Ken.

This is news?:-)

> What about all the centuries of music making in
>countries with a purely aural tradition rather than a tradition of notation
>- what, they never had a single 'musician' in all that time - they were just
>'great instruments'...? I don't think so.
>
>(Declaration of Interest : I am a lousy sight reader)

I think it's still around especially in folk or ethnic music. I spent some
time fooling around with Irish music for awhile and the tradition still
seems to be to hear it/learn it/play it rather than work off the printed
page. Or if you can read music, the bare bones of the melody become the
springboard for your own imaginings.

I'm a terrible sight reader. I can read music but I have the
Caruso/Corelli/Pavarotti problem--I need to hear something before the notes
on the page make any sense. Some problem, though--hey, I should only
really HAVE the voices any of those three guys had (I refer to Pav in the
past tense because IMHO he's got nothing left).

Ken

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