[Tango-L] Musicality. What is it?

[Bruno Afonso]

Hi Huck,

I have taken only one tango "musicality" class. It went over different
composers/eras, as well how they differently convey different feelings
and emotions, even using the same song. Then we explored a bit how
different dance approaches will produce different emotions, such as
creating tension, etc.

I enjoyed the class, it was bidirectional and basically the teacher
was telling what cool things one can look for and explore. I'm sure
given enough time you will find a lot of this, but not all. That's the
nice thing about taking classes vs never taking or only reading books.

We may have had very different experiences as far as classes go. I
don't have them with teachers I don't dig or I don't enjoy their (lack
of) sensitivity. That's why it's a good idea to check out the first
one to see if you like it. Maybe I was very lucky with it and this is
why you strongly disagree ?

It looks like you took classes that were aimed at people at a level
much lower level than yours. There are very bad music teachers around
and that doesn't make music classes worthless in general. :-)

stay cool
b


On 12/6/07, Huck Kennedy <huck at eninet.eas.asu.edu> wrote:
> Bruno Afonso <bafonso at gmail.com> writes:
> > I find interesting people here saying that classes on musicality are
> > worthless when even top musicians in schools like berklee school of
> > music have them from others. And those are soon to be professional
> > musicians.  But hey, I'm sure a tango aficionado knows more about music
> > than some of the best musicians in the world... people here tend to
> > know more about everything than anyone else, so that wouldn't surprise
> > me :)
>
>      Congratulations on building and then successfully slaying
> a strawman with penache, Bruno!  Some of us saying that most
> musicality classes taught to tango students are of little use
> in no way logically implies the ridiculous sweeping
> generalization that music colleges are worthless as you claim
> it does above.
>
>      Music is indeed a very technical subject.  When Berklee
> School of Music starts teaching musicality classes at a tango
> festival, let me know, and I'll gladly sign up.  Meanwhile,
> I'll pass on the usual Hand Clapping 101 Class and Phrases Are
> Eight Measures And Oh By The Way Two Plus Two Equals Four Class
> next time I go to a tango festival, if you don't mind.  :-)



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Bruno Afonso
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