Similarly, I have heard about a clarinet player who didn't think he needed
to know about anything prior to the classical era, because his instrument
wasn't invented until then....
--Susan Thompson
Steve Mumford wrote
It used to be popular among many of my classmates to say "I don't need
to learn theory, I'm a performance major". It's easy to pick that kind of
person out by the way they play.
Dave wrote:
We spend several hours a day doing harmonic and formal analysis of=
everything from Bach chorals and cello suites to Wagner opera and roman=
tic symphonies -next year is 20th century harmony and analysis- in addit=
ion to a lot of 4-part embellished choral writing, and arranging things =
for various instrumentation.
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