I agree with Hans on this. Musicianship is not some ethereal, magical thing that is mysterious. It's something pretty definite, and something that can be taught and learned. The biggest thing I don't like to hear regarding musicianship is the idea that it somehow can't be taught. It sort of goes back to a general epistemology - can you figure something out, or are you going to stand back and say "gee I don't know", or worse yet, invent an answer that isn't even true just so you stop looking? If we stopped at the ether theory of matter, or astrology, we would have never figured out how things really worked. Thankfully we didn't. With enough hard work, you might very well be the next Radovan or ver Meulen. Then again, you might not - but it won't happen with a lot of dedication and a lot of knowledge from those who know how to do it. I liken it to running a marathon. You may never be the fastest marathon runner in the world. But, history is rife with people that trained properly of all shapes and sizes and who ended up running many marathons under three hours. (But, nobody is going to fault you for not being the next Dennis Brain or Paula Radcliffe if it doesn't make you happy.) -William In a message dated 2/11/2011 5:35:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Musicianship requires a lot: very good ear, perhaps acquired perfect pitch, perhaps superb rhythmic sense very good objective taste plus: listen, listen, listen plus: store the listened musical pieces well, so to find the data for reproduction purpose plus: musical understanding, acquired by reading scores & hear they realized to sound the same time, but no musical instrument touched & no record player of any type turned on. plus: understanding the arts in general, developing a sense of symmetry, progression & tension & relax; understanding colors & setting them into relation to acoustical sensations (sounds). plus: performance technique, performance routine, performance discipline plus: comprehensive knowledge about the music writing (composing) system, harmonic system, bigger phrasing to the mini phrasing. plus: being exposed to music from the very early years of life A very good teach has all this & is able to transfer it to the students & motivate them to follow his or her example, using their brain & phantasy. ##################################################################### Am 11.02.2011 um 10:25 schrieb Lawrence Yates: > I'm not sure you can teach musicianship but you can, to a point, teach a > damn good imitation. I had a colleague who taught some very unmusical kids > to produce what sounded like very musical performances - they couldn't feel > anything, but they could follow instructions to the letter. Whether that > ever turned into what I think we are calling musicianship, I don't know. > > Cheers, > > Lawrence > > On 11 February 2011 09:14, Ralph Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Ralph R. Hall >> [email protected] >> Ralph R. Hall >> http://www.brasshausmusic.com >> >> I have just written two articles attempting to answer the question: >> 'Can you teach musicianship'? >> > -- > Lawrenceyates.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/valkhorn%40aol.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
