In article <slrnd9spq8.ng.slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2005-06-01, Pete Thomas <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Although I'm usually happy to help beginners, I find my teaching
>> abilities a bit lacking in the elementary department compared with
those
>> who specialise in teaching real beginners. I do not wish this to appear
>> arrogant (I have had quite a lot of feedback from beginner composers
>> here that at times my advice has been useful) but in this case I have
>> to say again that if you do not know what a key is in music, it would
be
>> best to start from scratch and get some lessons from someone who is
used
>> to more elementary teaching.
>>
>> Furthermore you will get a better understanding of "key" in music if
>> someone plays you some examples at the keyboard (or on any instrument)
>> rather than me try to explain it in text.
>
>I am very disappointed with your considering "key" to be such a trivial
>concept as to be unworthy of a minimal effort to help me understand it.
No
>doubt everyone in this Wonderful(!) community feels the same way about
>"key." Why waste time with it, when *everyone* (except me, of course)
>knows *precisely* what it means? Until asked, of course.......
>
>Be this as it may, what does a rank beginner have to do to get anyone to
>explain this simple concept (in twenty-five words or less, of course)? I
>am anxious to move on to some topic which is considerably more complex,
>such as a discussion of the distinction between a tone and a note. I am
>trying to figure *this* out. You see, I have to know this in order to
>decide whether it is possible to construct a chord in isolation from a
>musical context.
>
>Thus far, the Wonderful(!) residents here do not believe that this
>possibility exists. But being composers, of course, they should certainly
>know--shouldn't they?
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>
>where every resident understands "key"
>because he has his own personal, compositionally-irrelevant definition
>
>In other words:
>
> "To complete the puzzle, simply reshape its pieces to fit"
--
Matthew H. Fields http://www.umich.edu/~fields
Music: Splendor in Sound
To be great, do better and better. Don't wait for talent: no such thing.
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