Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:02:23 +0100 To: finale <[email protected]> From: SN jef chippewa <[email protected]>
I believe instrumental technique has always advanced as composers write dumb/difficult/impossible things
henry, i am going to assume that your comment wasn't meant to be nearly as reactionary, simplistic and mean-spirited as it sounds to me.
i find it quite unfortunate that these kind of discussions so often start from this perspective rather than from the one where composers do in fact know what they are doing with "new" techniques (which often aren't as new as some would like to believe), or that if they are in fact learning new techniques (with or without the help of an open-minded performer) they haven't yet mastered they will master them in the course of the work and that those new techniques might just be part of what make the work unique and interesting.
what performer knew how to play any "contemporary" technique the first time they came across it without having to practice the thing first? in fact what performer could play a single tone in tune (piano excepted ;-) ) on an instrument without having to learn it first?
i am not the only person to have found that a technique or passage claimed to be impossible, dumb, unidiomatic or whatever by one player is in fact already part of another player's repertoire of skills.
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