Klarinet Archive - Posting 000213.txt from 2004/09

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Organic change (and wind driven vs. stretch tuning)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:20:14 -0400

Joe Wakeling wrote:

> But of course what makes music really
> "sound Indian" is not the notes (any more than the
> major scale makes music "sound classical"); it's
> the way those notes are combined in melodic,
> rhythmic and harmonic fashion, often combined
> with a specific set of performance rituals. So this
> piece didn't "sound Indian" (except in a very
> superficial way) because it lacked all these things,
> and it didn't "sound classical" either because the
> Indian scale wasn't classical. This could have
> been a good thing because it could have then
> sounded like "something else". But it didn't,
> because no rapport had been created between its
> elements---they were just slapped together. It was
> a bit like watching a married couple who talk at
> each other but don't listen to each other.

This was exactly my reaction to "Klezmer Nutcracker Shirim", which has
been mentioned here a couple of times --- and which was cited as an
example of how Klezmer is purely a matter of performance practice, a
definition which doesn't work for me.

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On a related topic, Tony Pay began an essay on the relationship between
'wind driven' and 'stretch tuning', but he was interrupted by something.
I've been hoping that he would post the conclusion to his essay.....

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