Re: developing musicians and a musical culture

[bruno kleinefeld <brunoklein@ideastudioweb.com>]

I'm sorry
after sending my last message i received the digest
and realised that the discussion has gone further.

Of course mine was just the report
of a very common experience
for people like me who started
their musical instruction in accademic institutions.

I'll never stop to be astonished
when a see that someone who studied piano
(or any other instruments) for ten years cannot
do nothing else with his instrument that's not
an exercise of memory and technic.
Most of the people who studied music
is in this situation.

On the other hand I'd like to point the fact
that in many languages "to play" means both
"playing an instrument" and "playing a game"
  - jouer (Fr), spiele (Ger) - : a fact that's surely
much more that a mere coincidence (as you see
there're no common roots in the three words).

b:k

Ps: in italian to play is "suonare" which is more related to the 
acoustic experience and meaning (same latin root of words as sound 
etc.). This doesn't sound well to me!