from: "hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
subject: RE: [Hornlist] Re: transposing
Simon, you are right, but just partly. First comes the
ability of spontaneously hearing music while you read it.
Oh yes, I agree. I see the notes and my fingers move; there is nothing
conscious in-between. In fact I usually couldn't NAME the note I was
playing if asked, (No, Lawrence, that's not simply because I've got a
mouthpiece in the way!) but it's definitely there in my head.
I almost wrote "see the notes, hear the sounds, move the fingers" in my
previous mail, but then I realised that I don't actually hear the sound
in my head before getting there. Only when I play it.
And then, occasionally, my ears disagree with my head. Oops! Usually a
lip control problem. :-(
Solution: The Orff system starting in Kindergarten.
Really! The head teacher at my primary school was also the music
teacher (Great!) and I remember using a book by Orff. But I seem to
remember that the (my?) parents weren't all too keen on it then. Was it
too radical in the 60s?
Simon
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