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Re: Vibrato on the clarinet?

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2005-06-28 14:58

Markael wrote:

> > Music is sensory, sensual—like food. Some people like chocolate; others like strawberry.> >

Music is sometimes just that; but good music is a great deal more than that.

That's why it has the potential to move us deeply, because it has a much more complicated structure than the taste of chocolate or strawberry (which we merely like or don't like) and engages both our conscious and unconscious selves.

The use of vibrato, which at its best highlights some notes and not others, contributes to that sort of structure, often in ways that aren't consciously predictable to the performer or listener.

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2003/06/000733.txt

Sue Smith wrote:

> >To define

"what counts is what it does in context, and what it fails to do in context. So we have to judge every case on its own merits"

is equally subjective. My judgement will probably differ from yours and from clarinetgirl06 and from Rashad.> >

People differ in such judgements, but that doesn't mean it's *equally* subjective. Someone who uses vibrato musically intelligently gets the musical listener beyond wanting to say things like, I like vibrato or I don't like vibrato, in the same way as they might say, I like chocolate or I don't like chocolate.

But on rereading your original post I see that you left room for that, that even if you didn't say it just now; so I'm sorry if you felt I jumped down your throat.

Tony

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