[Hornlist] teaching musicality

[Cathryn Cummings]

I have recently struggled with the problem of how to teach musicality.  
I can't seem to recall exactly how I learned it (if indeed I ever have) 
- I think listening to a lot of recordings and live performances 
helped.  I think I started off just imitating & then over time learned 
to develop my own ideas.

Now when I try to teach it, I am just at a loss for words.  Plus, I 
hate the idea of "micromanaging" a student's musicianship.  One great 
thing that I stumbled upon recently is Philip Farkas' book "The Art of 
Musicianship".  He seems to have systematically figured out what makes 
for good musicianship & found words for it.  Ordinarily I would be 
skeptical of such an idea, but having read about half of it, he really 
does a great job of articulating a lot of things that I've been doing 
intuitively for years.  The jury's still out on whether I can translate 
it to my students...I may just have them buy the book (available from 
Wind Music Publications).

-Cathryn Cummings
Navy Band Southeast
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