Most common intonational woes are NOT caused by the poor musicianship of horn players performing atonal music. To suggest such is absurd. Nice excuse. HA....
I would say horrible listening skills ( see below!!!), lack of attention to pitch, and the lack of quality in many "wind ensembles" playing music of the 20th century, couple that with terrible composers writing for band, and you have students with no sense of the overtone series and how it relates to making sounds in unison with others. Listening skills which Wendell addressed so well, can be improved. Thinking outside the box is the key to training our next generation of players. So many players have more than one passion, and the quality suffers because of the lack of focus. Notice I said," making SOUNDS with others". Building chords, intervals, is just one part of it and NOT everything. You should be creating a palate of sound on the horn that compliments the other instruments you are playing with. Too often I see and hear someone working with a tuner, saying, well, I am "in tune" and try to reproduce the same spot for the "problem" note. That is a great example of lack of musicianship. Read Harry Partch"s book, "Genesis of a Music" you may learn a thing or two about sound and pitch. Harry Partch spent much time in my home town of Petaluma, northern California. Matthew ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
