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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-03-23 15:45
"TASTE AND EXPRESSION IN MUSIC
Taste is the sentiment of the beautiful: this sentiment is natural, it is not acquired, it develops itself. It is taste that appreciates light and shade and is the guide to expression.
Expression is that faculty possessed by the artist of reproducing with energy, with soul, above all with truth, the ideas which are within him and the sentiments he feels. Without the necessary gradations of light and shade, music would be pale and uncolored; for melody requires expression as the earth requires light, as the body needs a soul.
It is taste which reveals the true artist: music contains within itself a crowd of volatile shadows, mysterious and out of sight, which are beyond all rules and which are beyond the rules and which in the common musician will let pass unperceived; but the man of fact, the artist of taste, will know where to find them. Much more, he will understand them. Thence he derives his animation, he becomes influenced by the ideas which ruled the composition of the piece, he appropriates those ideas, makes them his own and imparts them to his audience, who, like himself, pass by turns from grief to joy, from calm to repose to the tumult and impetuosity of the passions. The music is no longer an amusement, a recreation of the ear: it attains a role far more imposing. It becomes a language strong, energetic and potent, which impresses the heart, silences the multitude, and leads them to great and noble actions.
Such are the results produced by expression in music: results real and not imagined. But they are not ordinary men who obtain these effects. Great artists alone know the secret of them, and this secret empowers them in the force of their talent, in their genius; and their success is never doubtful, for if the multitude have not genius at least they comprehend it, and are obedient to the feelings which that genius imparts to them.
H. KLOSE"
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: Wes
Date: 2003-03-23 17:25
Amen! Klose is still the great method for the clarinet after all these years!
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Author: Bradley
Date: 2003-03-24 11:41
Well- in my circles they call it the Clarinet Bible.....
I remember playing in the Miami Honors Band last year and having everyone refer to their well used Klose after our clarinet coach asked us a particular question.
Bradley
Post Edited (2003-03-24 13:28)
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