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SINGERS
Why Do We Sing?
I sing to open up. I sing to share. I sing to discover who I am. I sing to discover who I want to be. I sing to transcend my body. I sing to expand out the boundaries of my emotions, to feel more, to be more. To grow. To fly. I sing to tell the story of what I’ve learned, and to ask others to share their stories with me.
I sing to feel. I sing to love.
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Why I Should Have Paid More Attention in Music Theory Class
Paul Hindemith is best known as a composer, but was also a violinist, violist, conductor, and teacher who wrote a series of textbooks on musicianship, harmony, and composition. Apparently, even back in the ’40’s, he felt that many musicians lacked a sufficient understanding of the underlying principles which make music work.
In his preface to Elementary Training for Musicians he writes:
“If our performers – players, singers, and conductors alike – had a better insight into the essentials of musical scores, we would not be faced with what seems to have become almost a rule in the superficially over-polished performances of today: either the rattling through of a piece without any reasonable articulation, without any deeper penetration into its character, tempo, expression, meaning, and effect – or the hyper-individualistic distortion of the ideas expressed in a composer’s score.”
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