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Re: common ground [musical components]
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- Subject: Re: common ground [musical components]
- From: "Angelo Gilardino" <winter@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 18:26:04 +0200
> -----Messaggio originale----- > Inviato: sabato 2 ottobre 1999 12.50 > A: mossberg@df.lth.se > Oggetto: common ground > > > If you hear, for instance, Gustav Leonhardt's transcription of violin and > cello works for the harpsichord you may say they are not to your > taste (too > thick, too thin, too embelished, too frugal, too different from > what you are > used), but, informed as they are by decades of basso continuo > playing, one > cannot possibly say they are thoughtless, incorrect or > anything-goes. That > is the technical common ground I talk about. > regards > Lavinia > Dear Lavinia, among guitarists who play, give concerts, make records, who transcribe, who compose (we had recently a very instructive lesson about how to become composers!), who teach, the percentage of those who have a thorough (no matter whether academical or earned by other paths of studies) background in theory, harmony, counterpoint and musical forms (let alone orchestration), does not go beyond a 10%. Perhaps I am optimistic. Among the disadvantages of being a normal musician - I mean, making music after having studied music and while steadily following to study music - you can number the fact that, whilst you know, admit and complain your ignorance before the Music Ocean and you restlessly fight to make your ignorance a bit smaller - you meet a lot of those people who, belonging to the masterful 90%, will show you how happy they are with their ignorance. Before such a powerful show of Innate Light, the normal musicians have always been ready to admit that studying music is useless, but it seems it is not enough. They have now to confess that it is a guilt. Can you write a four voice fugue in two hours? Can you orchestrate a piano piece of 10 minutes in half a day? Shame. Hide your technical skills and join the happy tribe. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartok, studied counterpoint? What a pity, if they had ignored it, they would have been much better. Almost as a modern guitarist. Ciao. Angelo Gilardino Composer and Editor The Artistic Director of the "Andrés Segovia" Foundation of Spain 13100 Vercelli, Italia via Failla, 7 tel. & fax + 0161 255346 email <winter@net4u.it> http://www.seicorde.it/Gilardino/
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