Klarinet Archive - Posting 000150.txt from 2011/01

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Teaching and perception
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:53:53 -0500

Kathy

Should "personal interpretation", inclusive of your "emotional" content/context, be shared with a student? Or....should
the student be left to his own experience to/when/if to assign whatever "feeling" that might be generated by a work of
art? This....on their own, based on their own unique life experiences? I don't believe we can buy into the old
generalizations, minor key=sad; major key=happy or notes ascending=heaven; notes descending=hell......etc. (while I know
specific music has been composed, to represent those very thoughts)

This whole business about assigning emotion, a story...etc., to every piece of music, is an interesting topic and
deserves some discussion. I've performed in professional theater orchestras most of my career. I've noticed it's easy
for those of us involved with the theater, to slip into developing a "program", even for music composed without that
intent. This can quickly become like walking into quicksand.

Forest

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Williams-DeVries [mailto:kathleenwilliams76@-----.com]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 4:31 AM
To: klarinet@-----.com
Subject: [kl] Teaching and perception

Now I am a rubbish teacher Dan, but surely your personal interpretation of a piece what you teach your students?

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