Re: [Harp-L] thinking vs feeling

[Bob Cohen <bcohen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It occurs to me that (this is semantically like saying IMHO) Chris and 
Iceman are using different words to describe the same phenomenon.  
Getting to the point where the musician weds practice, skill, intention 
and cognition with his (or her) instrument and touches an audience.  In 
reading through some of the e-mails I'm struck more by the similarities 
in their approaches than the differences.

"Learn to think and feel in color." Chris
"I think through my options clearly, " Iceman

"Then you can learn to think and feel in shape." Chris
"Ideas come through you, which you can shape when you learn their secrets" Iceman


"When you can mix shape and color then you have texture, . . ." Chris
". . . feel where I want to place a note and then arc a musical idea." Iceman

"Once you have texture in mind start playing scenerios" Chris
"I think through my options clearly, feel where I 
want to place a note and then arc a musical idea."  Iceman

I am reminded of a famous W.B. Yeats poem called "Among School Children,"  The last stanza goes thus,

"Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
Stanza VIII
W.B. Yeats

Do you still think you disagree?

Bob

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