herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) (02/26/85)
In article <949@hound.UUCP> rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) writes: >Some years ago, like 1/3 century, a friend of mine was a music major >at the University of Pennsylvania. She was taught that as a musical >person it was her duty to avoid phonograph records and artificially >reproduced music. Of course she should attend live music performances >as her means allowed. Pianos and other real instruments in the home >were ok, but phonographs must be stamped out before they stamped out >musicians. >My question is (music majors please note), do they still teach that >sort of s*it in music schools today? >-- > >"It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg in a similar vein, those of you interested in this might want to look up the "Audio, Etc." column of Audio for the last few years. in this column are miscellaneous ramblings of Edward Tatnall Canby, Editor of Audio and his experiences of trying to teach music in various colleges in the 30's and 40's. a random thing i remember from the articles: it seems that almost all music teachers of the time were ignorant of electronics and other things as phonographs (and they had every reason to be; phonographs were unnatural). they tended to turn the volume all the way up and leave it there while do such things as hunting for the right track. for those of you who don't know, turning a stereo "all the way up" is about as wrong a way as possible to get high volume AND intelligible sound. suffice it to say the distortion was horrible and it was truly amazing that people thought this was the way "electronic" reproduction of music was fated to be. needless to say, this idea has persisted for quite a while and may even now be propogated. Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!water!watdcsu!herbie CSNET: herbie%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: herbie%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa NETNORTH, BITNET, EARN: herbie@watdcs, herbie@watdcsu