tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post5560286472346441696..comments2021-06-10T10:33:31.583-04:00Comments on Music Therapy: Horn DiaryLyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-66369971418144602422011-01-06T09:10:25.613-05:002011-01-06T09:10:25.613-05:00Jonathan - That first paragraph is very well put. ...Jonathan - That first paragraph is very well put. And that phrase in the second, "that smoothness and lightness" is wonderful. <br /><br />(Your use of "buzzy" in your original post always throws me off, though, because of my associating the word with "buzzing the mouthpiece". Plus, talking about tone is very difficult, which is why an aural example like your listening to Dennis Brain is worth way more than a thousand words.)<br /><br />Just want to add down here that I'm pretty sure my starting to play off the leg was an unconscious attempt to move my tone more over to what you were up to in Timepiece. I know coincidence is not causation, but I can't think of any other reason why after all these years I thought to try holding the horn up right about then.<br /><br />In other horn news, it seems one of the C'ville horns will be joining the Orange band this semester. I won't believe it until I see (and hear) it, but that could change everything and be wonderfully helpful to my playing. Slipping in those lower harmony notes as a 2nd is more what I was doing in that cantata - plus, with two of us I wouldn't need to work as hard being heard against the other brass. No to mention not wearing myself out covering the higher range of 1st parts.Lyle Sanford, RMThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-14180149153559470292011-01-05T07:15:11.893-05:002011-01-05T07:15:11.893-05:00Many musical improvements are as you describe. You...Many musical improvements are as you describe. You are taking in a whole range of experiences, and processing them on a level in your mind that is a bit below conscious rational thought. Afterwards, you can identify certain influences that probably have helped, but there is no way of knowing just why it is that those influences were effective just now.<br /><br />I'm quite sure that my tone has in significant part been influenced by the fact that I frequently listened to the Dennis Brain recordings of the Mozart Horn Concertos when I was young. That became for me the authoritative tone colour to aim for, even before I realised that I should be aiming for anything in particular. And as a result, I try to keep some of that smoothness and lightness even when putting on the power in a solo passage in a Mahler symphony. I can do brassy, but I choose only to do so as a special effect when I think the musical occasion requires it.Jonathan Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00527063732905729010noreply@blogger.com