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Thread #108583 Message #2263133
Posted By: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's Apprenticr
15-Feb-08 - 11:14 AM
Thread Name: Learning violin versus learning fiddle
Subject: RE: Learning violin versus learning fiddle
"No and no, because the techniques are (or should be) identical. It's what you do with those techniques that makes it classical or folk"
Exactly, there it is, perfectly summed up. The same goes for piano...classical and popular, it's what I do with my technique that makes the music what it is, and the composers of course, whether it be Mozart or Berlin.
"except agreement to disagree" sounds like most of the threads on Mudcat
". He (Joe Broughton) now teaches Folk Music and composition there (the Birmingham Conservatoire) according to the Birmingham Conservatoire website