The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159610 Message #3784363
Posted By: The Sandman
09-Apr-16 - 07:32 AM
Thread Name: Musical technique hints and tips
Subject: RE: Musical technique hints and tips
"Whoa, Jack, not for one second was I implying prescriptiveness in the matter of ornamentation."
yes, you are because you are saying that it should be learned as part of the tune.
What matters is the final music, how people learn ornamentation is going to be different for everybody what learning system works for one may not work for others.
As i understand it ornamentation was often used by musicians because they had to play a certain tune over and over for dancing and the musician SUBSEQUENTLY introduced twiddles to stop dying from boredom.
you try playing the same tune 30 times for a dancing competition where the same tune has to be used [so that it is fair for the dancers],to play the same ornaments as if you learned it as a tune is as boring as playing the tune without ornaments.