tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3687951754982596941.post7900824809249096522..comments2023-03-24T04:58:53.798-04:00Comments on ProneOboe: Everyone Makes MistakesJennethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02788767895802478774noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3687951754982596941.post-7204260414316489762014-08-14T11:28:07.955-04:002014-08-14T11:28:07.955-04:00Well, there's a difference between mistakes an...Well, there's a difference between mistakes and spontaneous creativity - though a minor mistake can easily be turned into a creative choice, and can color the rest of the performance. I'm thinking of an attack that speaks slightly late, and the subsequent choice to place other similar attacks behind the beat to match - that can be fun, and sound coherent, and interesting to boot. What I was thinking about in the post, though, was just straight up finger fumbles and missed low notes - obvious mistakes that no one wanted. We can forget, in this age of CDs and digital perfection, that live music is hard even for the great ones. Jennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02788767895802478774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3687951754982596941.post-50668376778729355102014-08-11T00:19:26.806-04:002014-08-11T00:19:26.806-04:00…..One more goal achieved, as you said. New questi...…..One more goal achieved, as you said. New questions, new curiosities. I wonder if in musical performance identifying errors, can be done with the same ease, (given the requisite knowledge) as in, let’s say, certain intellectual, or even physical games, such as chess or bridge. From the expert’s point of view, in those games any deviation from the prevailing statistical probability is a mistake, even if does not lead to a temporary setback.(If it doesn’t the opponents made their mistake.)<br />It seems to me, however, that in musical performance-actually in all artistic performance- a similar deviation may be construed as “spontaneous creativity”, no? I suspect a mistake has been made when a note “just doesn’t sound good, or long enough, or too long” (The following notes usually confirm or refute the initial opinion.<br />And you are charmingly right that in the end it is the awsomeness that counts. The degree of soul-stirring the sound evokes, and an unplanned smile is born. A fellow performer may consider a slightly premature, slightly louder attack a mistake. A less informed listener may experience it as a rousing bell preparing him for the sweet tones to come…<br />Dimitri<br />dimkordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04521450816086509425noreply@blogger.com