On 9 Feb 2005 at 14:53, John Howell wrote: > At 10:33 AM -0500 2/9/05, dhbailey wrote: > > > >Could you please explain what aspects of physics are in my conscious > >thought while I'm playing the trumpet? > > > >Physics is the science which defines and describes in precise detail > >the actions and interactions. I don't concede that we're discussing > >physics when I tell my student "While holding the trumpet so the > >mouthpiece is centered on your lips, you blow with sufficient > >pressure to get your lips to vibrate." > > Bernouli's law, actually, making the lips buzz like any other double > (or single) reeds. Same law that holds up both fixed-wing and > rotary-wing aircraft. The designer sure as heck needs to understand > that aspect of physics, while the pilot just needs to know how to use > it in practice and avoid stalling out. Which is why the absolutist > statements in this thread, especially as they relate to words that may > mean one thing to one person and something else to someone else, are > not helpful. The only absolutist statement I accept is this one: It > Depends!
These facts still have no more musical signifcance than the law of gravity. Without it, we'd be hard pressed to make any music at all (just as with physics in general), but gravity has nothing to do with the musical content of any piece of music whatsoever. This is so blazingly obvious to me that has left me wholly unable to explain the distinction in any way that makes sense to those who don't already see the point. So, I'll just stop after I've finished tonight's messages. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
