On Sunday, April 4, 2004, at 01:34 PM, Charles Turner wrote:
A rhetorical question for music teachers: how is musicality taught? Can it even be taught?Perhaps yes; perhaps no. I find some students seem to catch onto musical ideas quickly and learn the many ways of being expressive with a musical line or idea. Some, sorry to say, seem only able to imitate, never initiate anything original or personal into their playing. I had some students who could imitate a recording, but it was more like a carbon copy of someone else's interpretation of a work. One such student made it out of school, got a job as a band director, but may have become the world's worst teacher; or the worst I ever saw.
Ability to analyze and discriminate aurally are essential skills before mastering expressive musicianship. The first task is to learn to read the score with a question in mind: What did this composer attempt to write into his music? Or what is the composer saying?
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