Klarinet Archive - Posting 000176.txt from 2011/01

From: Rachel Roessel <gsurosey@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Teaching and perception
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:30:35 -0500

> But it is true, that meaning is personal

Music is soothing and healing to me. I don't know what I would do if I wasn't playing. I play in a community orchestra now and will be starting with another in a couple weeks. I, like Kathy, have some mental health issues (bipolar disorder among other things), and I find that I need music.

I'm a self-proclaimed theory geek and it calms me a lot of the time when I listen to a piece I'm paying attention to things like chord progressions and different cadences used (big fan of the deceptive cadence - I use it when I write). It bites me sometimes in that I have a tendency to block out the words and focus on the theoretical structure.

Rachel

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