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In a recent rehearsal, the conductor shared an idea that I loved and had never considered. The conductor was Italian and struggled a little getting the idea across but we received the message none the less.
He was speaking about creating the voice based on beauty first and then letting it fill out into the appropriate size and volume. Then he said the tone was always there. The pitch of any tone is always there waiting, it has no beginning and no end.
What he was saying is that rhythm, tempo, and meter shape the tone or pitch but a pitch in and of itself has no beginning and no end, it is eternal. It is always present and ready to be shaped by the rhythm.
The application of this idea immediately creates a different phrasing in any musical endeavor. It is a tremendous idea. Any tone we want to sing or play is already there we need only shape the tones with rhythm. If we don’t add rhythm, the tone will never cease.
It’s like sticking your hand into running water and diverting the flow or restricting the flow until it crashes through.
In a recent rehearsal, the conductor shared an idea that I loved and had never considered. The conductor was Italian and struggled a little getting the idea across but we received the message none the less.
He was speaking about creating the voice based on beauty first and then letting it fill out into the appropriate size and volume. Then he said the tone was always there. The pitch of any tone is always there waiting, it has no beginning and no end.
What he was saying is that rhythm, tempo, and meter shape the tone or pitch but a pitch in and of itself has no beginning and no end, it is eternal. It is always present and ready to be shaped by the rhythm.
The application of this idea immediately creates a different phrasing in any musical endeavor. It is a tremendous idea. Any tone we want to sing or play is already there we need only shape the tones with rhythm. If we don’t add rhythm, the tone will never cease.
It’s like sticking your hand into running water and diverting the flow or restricting the flow until it crashes through.