[Harp-L] re: shortly chromatic 3

[Jonathan Ross <jross38@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  --Jp wrote:

"While I fully understand and agree with the point you
are making, (i consider it a fact, actually, not an
opinion) I don't think it's helpful to redefine
"playing chromatically" to your own ends. "Play" and
"chromatically" already have generally accepted
definitions, and by those definitions, Howard Levy
does (as do many others) play the diatonic
chromatically. "


I think that it needs definition.  Terms are not pre-defined.  I can  
sing, but I can't sing, if you get my drift.  I literally can sing,  
but if I were to try singing with a choir it would become quite  
obvious that I can't "sing" as they define it.  I think "play" is the  
same here.


  --Jp again:

"Why not just say that they cannot "play the diatonic
chromatically without intonation issues," or
somethingto that effect? You make your point without
having to fight over definitions."


Mostly because I think definitions are worth discussing.  I think  
that it's important how this is defined.  It makes a lot of  
difference to how the topic is understood.  Secondly, because I can  
do both: discuss the definition of what "playing chromatically" means  
and debate the failings of this particular style in this context.  In  
part because the two are separate issues--related, but distinct.



 ()()    JR "Bulldogge" Ross
()  ()   & Snuffy, too:)
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