Klarinet Archive - Posting 000223.txt from 2010/08

From: "Michael D. Moors" <mdmoors@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cantabile
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:47:40 -0400

Expressions in the orchestra actually boil down to one thing. Watch the
conductor!

Mike Moors

-----Original Message-----
From: rien stein [mailto:rstein@-----.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 8:46 PM
To: klarinet
Subject: Re: [kl] Cantabile

Expressions like "cantabile", "espressivo", and so on, in my view are very
vague. I gave my own interpretation to these as being very subjective, (as
"pp" "f" and so on are!), and whenever I had a student encountering this
kind of mark, I always told him or her to try to sing that part of the
composition, tomake sense of it. I once had a student, taking an
examination, who was very much criticised by one of the examinators, who
thought she was playing it exactly the way I had told her. Thus I took her
instrument (mine was at home), and played it the way I "would have done it".
The examinator asked me about my performance and concluded "You heave a bad
taste" (he was a professional trumpet player), and we had a lengthy
discussion. I received an "F" degree, my student an "A". (For the Dutch
among us: my result was three, hers a nine).

Dan Leeson will, I assume, agree with me that all kind of indications on
dynamics, character and so on can be compared to saying the sound of an
instrument is "dark", bright", or whatever. It is just an indication, and
nothing else, no one knows exactly what is meant by it, and we will have to
make up our minds, whether to play this particular section this way or that.
In many pieces an indication of dynamics even can have different
interpretations (especially with Wagner and, p.e. Bruckner!).

Rien (to the English-speaking among us: Rheene, not Ryan)
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