Re: [Shaku] Everything you wanted to know about re-meri

From: Karl Signell (signell@cpcug.org)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2005 - 08:30:36 PST


At 10:04 AM 1/5/2005, Phil James wrote:
>The wonderful thing about traditional music as opposed to art music is
>that it evolves and branches as a living organism, and that you can follow
>a DESCRIPTIVE (actual practice) grammar rather than a PRESCRIPTIVE
>(theoretical) grammar.

Is shakuhachi music traditional or art? In our era, shakuhachi is
performed on concert stages in front of large audiences, is notated,
theorized about, has a written history, and is taught in conservatories
such as Geidai, where Japanese music theory is also taught. These
characteristics define art music.

Living or dead? In Western art music conservatories such as Juilliard, a
flute student's most important class by far is private lessons with a
master musician, in a relationship much like that of the shakuhachi
student/teacher one. I don't see how art music is less a living organism
than shakuhachi music.

Karl

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