Klarinet Archive - Posting 000124.txt from 2005/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] German sound
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:23:22 -0500

But Tom, what about bi or trilingual people? Must they establish
in which language they will think before they play?

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Flavel [mailto:tom@-----.net]On Behalf Of Tom
Flavel
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:11 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] German sound

> > dnleeson wrote:
> >
> > > 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.

How about speech patterns affecting timing, irrespective of tone?
(or
possibly also related, I don't know :)

Speaking in dutch, words come in a different order than they do
in
english, as the languages have different grammars. Consequently,
sentances end not only in different places, but for different
reasons.
Indeed, in some languages (I hear greenlandic eskimo is the
quintissential example), one can run words into each other almost
continiously, to express what would take a sentance in english as
a
single word.

Surely this would affect the way the person views *structure* of
phrases, and therfore their outlook on what constitues a natural
(subjective to them, relative to their language of choice)
sounding
phrase and timing.

If so, translation could be interesting.

--
Tom

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