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Author: andrea
Date: 2000-01-25 18:39
how artistic is the clarinetist she is a goddess and charmer with the powers of her music
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Author: Mario
Date: 2000-01-26 17:19
OK. Let's start a very interesting thread here. When you think about an instrument, what gender does the instrument projects (everything else being equal - in particular, the music played).
Just to launch the debate:
The clarinet: definitely a male personality. Dark, solid and mysterious. Growling chalumean, assertive clarion, diabolic altissimo.
The flute: female of course. Elegant, charming, graceful.
The oboe: probably female. Sad, timid, melancholical.
Etc.
Care to continue?
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-01-26 18:23
English Horn, more melancholy than oboe [or oboe-d-amore],either sex but not bi-. Bassoon, definitely male as in Grandfather! Also bass cl and French horn in lower registers [Wagner- Siegfried etc.] I'm motivated from their solo etc music, I guess. Others, opinions re: violin family and trumpet-cornet?? Don
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Author: Chloe
Date: 2000-01-26 21:18
Just to be difficult I will say a clarinet is female because it is resilient, versatile, beautiful but capable of great power too!
Chlo
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-01-26 22:38
Chloe wrote:
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Just to be difficult I will say a clarinet is female because it is resilient, versatile, beautiful but capable of great power too!
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Which, of course, are attributes of many men :^)
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-01-27 01:50
That depends who play and what tune.
Ex.Harold Wright plays Heinrich Baerman's adagio=male,
Stanley Drucker plays Debussy's Premier Rapsody=neutral,
Karl Leister plays Brahms sonata #2=male,
Michel Arrignon plays Rossigni wind ensemble=female
Marcel Moyse plays Reinecke's undine=noble lady,
Michel Debost plays Mozart D zur=lady,
James Galway plays Fauret=manly,
Heinz Holiger plays Mozart=mechanical,
Leon Goosens plays ditto=very manly,
Menuhin plays Mendelssohn=definitely female,
Issac Stern plays Mozart sonatas=male........
Mark 'great power' is attributable to American women rather than mankind, I guess.
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Author: jack
Date: 2000-01-27 16:01
Clarinet is female; just when I think I have command of her, she slips away, into another character, one I have yet to understand.
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-01-27 16:01
Rick2 wrote:
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Not all clarinetists are female.
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True. Also, not all females are goddesses.
;-)
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Author: CVS
Date: 2000-01-27 18:13
For all who are not language boffs- clarinet is a FEMININE word in french and german!
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Author: A.R.
Date: 2000-01-27 19:21
And what about the instruments and their animal characters?
A.R.
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