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Re: Tabuteau's influence

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-03-07 19:38

I believe it was Tabuteau from whom Iggy Gennusa got the "Number System" for dynamics. The short of is that you take the softest you can play a note and call that "one." Then the loudest note would be "eight," and you have the increments in between. Iggy would place numbers above notes of a phrase and insist his students follow that assiduously.

Iggy introduced that concept at a KlarFest I attended in the early '80s. He played a group of notes and then asked the audience what numbers they thought they were. There was some confusion because someone offered up what those notes were numerically within the scale.

Somewhere along the way I saw a dissertation on the Tabuteau numbering system that may be worth Googling.

..............Paul Aviles

Post Edited (2020-03-07 21:40)

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