Klarinet Archive - Posting 000108.txt from 2005/03

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] At Tony's request
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:16:50 -0500

I certainly agree with Tony on this one. I would choose to compare a
compilation to a pot-luck dinner with everyone contributing a dish but
knowing little or nothing about what others will bring and only
expecting great variety.

RB

On Mar 3, 2005, at 7:15 AM, <tony-w@-----.uk> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vann Joe Turner <medpen@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:22 PM
> Subject: [kl] At Tony's request
>
>> Tony (Pay) has asked me both on this list and via private email to
>> explain
> what I find deficient in his chapter in *The Cambridge Companion to the
> Clarinet*. This stems from my having labeled it gobbledegoop . . . . .
> . .
>
> Compilation books, books which have one editor yet several contributor
> writers are never really very successful as 'how to' manuals. They are
> probably intended to be more of an overall view of what several
> distingushed players see as only a small part of a much greater product
> which they maybe will never see. None of them get a preview of what
> other
> writers contribute, so each of them is more or less working in the
> dark.
> Some say this is a 'cheap' way for an editor to 'write' a book - a con,
> certainly if the editor then uses his own name. They do have some
> worth
> however. But there really is only one way to learn to play an
> instrument
> properly, and that is properly - with a good teacher. Books are no
> good -
> not really. This is not to say that TP`s contribution is worthless,
> there is
> indeed room for this kind of material, but at the same time
> 'gobbledegook is
> a comletely wrong turn of phrase. In this instance, TP`s, and all other
> contributors` kind of advice reads more like a general resume from
> which a
> reader may come to honestly appraise or question what they see, and
> then to
> take this further and ask their teacher`s advice.
>
> These books cannot teach, they can only offer information from which
> the
> reader then goes elsewhere to delve deeper.
>
> May I say that Gobbledegook is at present in here, yes, but not in the
> *Cambridge Companion*. The very term 'companion' means quite literary
> to
> have something else (something familiar) running along side. Like a
> teacher.
>
> Tony W
>
>
>
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