All these are important. Speed, agility, accuracy, cantabile, line, sound, ensemble playing, improvising and more. This is not and either/or situation.
Oops. Meant "not AN either/or situation." Got to typing too fast, there Mark On 3/23/05 1:00 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ------------------------------ > > message: 8 > date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:19:32 +0100 > from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > subject: RE: [Hornlist] Valve cleaning > Last comment: is it necessary to play the valve action at > maximum speed like a flute or clarinet, or is it better if > the valve works exactly in closing & opening ? What is more > important in the music: valve speed or tone quality or > number of notes played or quality of the notes ? > > I cannot understand why some people have the Foerster (just > an example) as their favourite piece ? Do they have > difficulties producing any fine cantilena or any melody > containing longer notes than 1/8ths ? > _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/listinfo/horn > > End of Horn Digest, Vol 27, Issue 27 > ************************************ http://www.mark-taylor.biz _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
