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Re: Math is an Art
Posted:
Feb 23, 2012 1:21 AM
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At 12:02 PM 2/22/2012, Paul Tanner wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Robert Hansen <bob@rsccore.com> wrote:
> > Imagine that you are a musician, a pianist for example. And
> someone comes to
> > you and says that the practice of scales should not be part of the training
> > of pianists.
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>Stop right there. There is actually a school of thought that technique
>should derive only from practicing the repertoire one develops.
>Practicing exercises including scales and arpeggios outside of
>repertoire are excluded as useless or even harmful. This philosophy is
>practiced by a larger percentage of even world-class performers and
>teachers than you evidently realize.
Speaking of stopping right there... Some of us are familiar with the
Suzuki Method (probably the most definitive model of this philosophy)
for violin and for piano and the true believers among the
cause. Fewer of us are also aware that when a Suzuki teacher
recognizes genuine talent in a student - the kind that can
potentially take them to a university degree focusing on the
instrument and/or participation in a nontrivial orchestra - Suzuki
gets lipservice at best. There is a real world, too.
Wayne
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