Posted by Anthony on October 07, 2002 at 11:14:39:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Real Book posted by AW on October 07, 2002 at 11:04:52:
[By the way, have you noticed that pianists read bass and treble clefs simultaneously, and don't think anything of it?]
Violists, cellists, violinists, bassists, bassoonists, and trombonists have to alternate clefs all the time-- it's part of being a musician! The problem nowadays is that a good bulk of musical instruction at an early age is way to instrument-specific. We need to teach our students to be musicians before we teach them to be tubists/flautists/cellists etc.
quoth "The challenge of an accompanying instrument is a lesser challenge, and therefore produces a lesser musician".
My interpretation: don't let the tubist produce the musician, make the musician produce the tubist.
Anthony "who knows many tubists, but not as many musicians who play the tuba" Labelle