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. _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org