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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-02-26 13:40
Alphie, just to remember back, I was answering Wyatt, who proclaimed:
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Don't go there, Jeff!! Vibrato is for the great unwashed and Richard Stoltsman. Real Clarinetists never, ever, allow it to color their presentation.
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where I then mentioned Muhlfield and the quote.
I then went on to say:
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Times & tastes change - the dry sound, unornamented sound of today's clarinetists would most probably have been laughed at in the middle of the 18th through most of the 19th century. Today's music is played differently, but not necessarily better.
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Which I think still stands. Notice I used "dry" & "unornamented". The "dry" is, well, badly used here because it can mean anything or nothing, but the unornamented still stands. Besides vibrato (which most scholars concede was used last and previous century, to greater or lesser effect), how about the "unornamented"? Today's musicians aren't schooled in ornamentation, but ornaments were supposed to have been played even if not written. Ornamentation wasn't written into the tutors of that day, either, but all musicians were supposed to know how to do them.
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Alphie |
2000-02-26 12:59 |
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RE: Mark!One more on vibrato... |
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Mark Charette |
2000-02-26 13:40 |
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