Bill
I envy your memorizing abilities. I have just been thinking what
your situation implies. You obviously must have found a way of
learning all pieces by heart.
I find that extremely difficult, but began trying to do so after
reading an article by Matthew Wadsworth on that question, in the
English lute journal. He mentions three different facets of his
memorizing process, and their various advantages, which includes a
better knowledge of the music's structure. I imagine that the abilty
to improvize must pass through an abitlity to "comprehend" (in the
original sense of that word) a music's structure in that way. Paolo
Pondolfo,gambist, in his notes to his Improvisando, Glossa, implies
that relying on muscial notation brings a loss of the interior
knowledge of the music and with it the abiltiy to constantly recreate
by improvisation. Without going that far, there may be an element of
truth in this; at least I can imagine this could make an interesting
topic for further discussion.
Best regards
Anthony
Le 16 mai 07 à 21:26, bill kilpatrick a écrit :
> you'awl may laugh and joke but i've got dyslexia big
> time and i simply can not - not WILL not - but CAN not
> .. read music - in both tabs and notation. i can
> forge through a melody, note by note but it's a long
> and painful process. i only really "know" a piece
> when i hear it. (godbless midi and mp3.)
>
> i happened to hear an interview once with joanna
> lumley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Lumley) in
> which she said she'd tried many times to do it but
> simply couldn't - even with encouragement from her
> conductor husband, stephen barlow
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Barlow).
>
> i play better now, aged 60, than i ever did when i was
> kid but i still can't read a note.
>
> - bill
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