Klarinet Archive - Posting 000122.txt from 2005/05

From: "Margaret Thornhill" <clarinetstudio@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Rubank and Trills (for Paul Harris)
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 14:11:36 -0400

Paul,
Are you the same Paul Harris who has written excellent pieces and studies
for beginning clarinet, or another Paul Harris?

Yes, I knew someone was going to call me on the issue of ornamentation.
Paul, I have a degree in performance practice --of course I believe in
teaching ornamentation. But, to me it's a question of balance and timing.
Ornamentation can be easily introduced any time a student is working on a
piece that warrants it as early as a student is ready (like the
appoggiaturas that crop up in some of Eric Simon's song arrangments, for
example.) It's particularly appropriate as a topic for discussion when a
student is playing music from the time periods in which ornamentation was
expected as part of the musician's art. Whether or not it warrants three or
four whole pages of exercises when a student is just starting to play
melodic etudes--let's say, grade 2--is what I'm referring to.

In Rubank Intermediate, five pages before discussing grace notes and trills
at length, the student is introduced, seemingly for the first time, to the
dotted eighth note.

This is definitely a leap of faith, even for 1936.

Cheers,
Margaret

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