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From: "Jeffrey Snider" <snide76258@a...>
"Jeffrey Snider" <snide76258@a...>
Date: Tue Mar 6, 2001 11:55 am
Subject: Re: Ornaments

--- In vocalist-temporary@y..., Scott Drackley <vocalist-temporary@y..., Scott Drackley < the John > Paton/Alfred Publishing edition of the 26 Italian Art Songs and Arias. When > I ask my students to do the ornamenting, I always refer them to this book for > a jumping off point. I must strongly disagree. Even though Arthur Schoep who wrote the ornaments was a teacher at North Texas, and still lives in Denton, I dislike the ornaments in the Paton volume. I know of no other voice teacher who likes them. They seem unstylistic and crude for the most part and do nothing to enhance the text or vocal line. It seems to me that they are simply ornaments for their own sake. A pity, really, because the volume is becoming standard. What is also REALLY annoying is that the ornaments are usually written on the same line as the principle melody, often making ignoring them next to impossible. Just my opinion, I could be wrong.