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 Re: I don't understand
Author: SebastianB 
Date:   2022-10-16 01:12

I resurface this 2020 thread to say:

The less attention players and teachers pay to nailing this issue down, the more haphazard and useless the terms will become. In this regard saxophone community discussions of the term "spread" are a useful sneak preview.

Words are not gravy poured over life to make it more palatable, they are the essence of our particular way of handling the world. Even an in-person teacher has to use words as part of their communication with the student. Played examples or physical demonstrations are priceless, but they are not sufficient.

More than communication is at stake. Our private thinking depends for its quality on how well our words (our concepts) group real-world phenomena into categories. The more superficial or even random our groupings are, not only will we be less able to communicate, but our thinking will be less effective.

In this era of easy preparation and dissemination of sound, the difficulty of rescuing tone vocabulary and making it objective does not lie in the 'subjective' aspects or technical limitations or even in figuring out how to make the issues objective and communicable. The real challenge lies in the fact that our culture tends to make it less likely that people will understand how crucial and normative the task of conceptualizing knowledge is.



Post Edited (2022-10-16 05:44)
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