David was just being succinct. Mercifully, not everyone witters on at the length of, inter alia, yours truly ;-)
The pipes too have undergone many developments from open-ended nine notes to closed-ended with up to two+ chromatic octaves and seventeen keys. Closed fingering was but one of them. c >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gretton [mailto:i...@gretton-willems.com] >Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:30 AM >To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu >Subject: [NSP] Re: Re: > >David Baker wrote: > >>>Had it not been for certain groups of musicians breaking the rules >>>because what resulted sounded good to them, the only style of trumpet >>>playing would be baroque, and jazz would not exist (to give but one >>>example). > >Hmmm...that is a very interesting take on the history of >music, ignoring >entirely the invention of valves (which allowed the trumpet to >play in any >key and to play diatonically and chromatically in the low and middle >registers for the first time); the end of the trumpet guild system; the >development of the brass band; the rise of mass production through >industrialisation (which made instruments much cheaper); the >influence of >African music in New Orleans; and the overall gigantic changes >that took >place in Western music between the baroque period and the rise >of jazz. Oh >yes, and also the fact that jazz existed long before jazzers >started to use >the trumpet (Armstrong started on the cornet, for example). >I'm afraid it >wasn't all just a matter of some cool dudes audaciously >deciding to "break >the rules". > >But don't let me rigidly cramp your musicological style! > > >>>I don't think it fair to call any style of playing any instrument >>>'incorrect' simply because it does not adhere rigidly to tradition >... >>>I would hope the NSP community was receptive to the efforts of young >>>players (I hope at 22 I can still call myself one) >expressing themselves >>>through their chosen instrument and working hard in order to >do so. If >>>not, this 'tradition' is indeed in real danger of dying out. > >The trouble, though, is that traditions can get hijacked in a >way that takes >them far away from the essential nature of the music, so that someone's >let-it-all-hang-out-baby self-expression comes to dominate. >And with modern >media, public funding, and publicity, the new style then takes >over and the >traditional one is forgotten. > > >Cheers, > >Mister Nasty (using Paul Gretton's computer) > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
