Klarinet Archive - Posting 000113.txt from 2005/03

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] German sound
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:50:40 -0500

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, dnleeson wrote:

> I know about Deutsch's work. She is very prolific.
>
> One would have to be crazy to deny that there is a relationship
> between speech and music, but even Deutsch for whom this is one
> of life's hot button, has not even hinted that the sound
> character of a musical instrument is affected by speech patterns.

However, if we agree that the chararacteristic of the sound of a wind
instrument is greatly influenced by the player (which involves of course
much more than just the tonal pattern), and the the player's speech
patterns influence both the formants that are involved in tonal production
and cadence of the note groups, may we then create a reasonable hypothesis
that speech influences the "sound character"?

It will probably languish as a hypothesis only for some time to come,
though.

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