Absolutely. There is a reason most music schools require singing, and singing on note names or solfege syllable at that - it makes one a better musician.
-S- > -----Original Message----- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > du] On Behalf Of David Jewell > Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:23 AM > To: The Horn List > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Fingerings, Singerings > > I guess that I would like to stress that even if you "can't" > sing, you should at least try to sing through etudes and the > like, it really does help strengthen one's inner sense of > pitch relationships. Additonally one can often discover the > most sensible articulations by vocalizing the melodies. If > one is not inclined to sing in public, then I strongly urge > one to do so in the practice studio. Vocal tone quality is > not the issue, but one of using every musical tool to raise > our performance level. > Paxmaha > > David Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, David Jewell wrote: > > > I firmly advocate that all horn players should be singers in some > > capacity, especially choral, and that they should listen to > - gasp - > > opera some too. paxmaha > > gasp, sigh - for those of us who can't or won't sing, at > least we can play real songs and use them to learn to play > lyrically. For that, I recommend (again, sorry - but another > holiday season is approaching, and they make great gifts, > especially from you to you) various vocal collections with CD > piano accompaniment. My short list for today comprises the > Hal-Leonard Mozart Aria books; that is, one book for each of > soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, bass-baritone. The solo parts > are written with the piano part, not on separate sheets, they > are in C (alto if you can get up there, otherwise basso), and > the bass-baritone book has the added attraction of being > written in bass clef. These books are all fun, inspirational > and not very expensive, considering that the accompaniment CD > is included. There are many other such books. > > > { David Goldberg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] } > { Math Dept, Washtenaw Community College } { Ann Arbor > Michigan } _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/paxmaha%40yahoo.com > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/steve%40fridays > computer.com > _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
