And these folks call themselves "composer" ???????? Producing a sound is not like using a water hose, releasing water by opening the thumb & close it by the thumb again. It is just releasing air in certain portions at variable speed. No need to block the flow of air by any active action. Or let the air just flow & end that flowing without any action. Just end it. If an individual is not able to detect that mechanism by himself or herself, this individual is not suited for our trade. Basta ! One must have this certain spontaneous action or reaction. If you have to describe all & everything in most details, so even the ungifted or brainless will be able (perhaps) to result more or less positive, but having to waste most of the limited practice time by endlessly practicing things, he or she will never get to spontaneous action. Not to talk about music anyway. ########################################################### Am 03.07.2011 um 19:37 schrieb Steven Mumford:
> > > Well, I might as well step into the flames by saying that it is possible > to produce a very nice sounding and very short note by stopping the note with > the glottis or whatever the heck it is down there that does it. I don't > really need to know what it is, but it's whatever stops the air when you say > uh-oh, or ruh-roh as the case may be. That can be done without tightening > any of the other muscles in the throat or neck so it doesn't really involve a > lot of "throat stuff'. It's another sound in the palette. There are a lot > of ways to stop the note and each way produces a different quality of sound. > Louis Stout always said that staccato was a lot more about the beginning of > the note than the end of the note. > I remember doing a new piece for horn, percussion and dancers one time > and the composer had written a bunch of notes as 32nds with a million little > tiny rests after each one that made it really hard to read. I asked him why > he didn't just write quarter notes with dots on them and he said "I just > wanted to make sure they would sound really short". Sigh. > > - Steve Mumford > _______________________________________________ > 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/archive%40jab.org
