The Language of Music
[size=3][color=#29384e][font=Times New Roman]A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall[/font][font=宋体]，[/font][font=Times New Roman] and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work[/font][font=宋体]，[/font][font=Times New Roman] but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities[/font][font=宋体]，[/font][font=Times New Roman] for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique[/font][font=宋体]，[/font][font=Times New Roman] for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day[/font][font=宋体]，[/font][font=Times New Roman] as their vocal chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down[/font][font=宋体]，[/font][font=Times New Roman] while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm[/font][font=宋体]—[/font][font=Times New Roman]two entirely different movements.[/font][/color][/size][size=3][color=#29384e][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/color][/size]
[size=3][color=#29384e][font=宋体] [/font][font=Times New Roman]Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety[/font][font=宋体]，[/font][font=Times New Roman] for the notes are already there[/font][font=宋体]，[/font][font=Times New Roman] waiting for them[/font][font=宋体]，[/font][font=Times New Roman] and it is the piano tuner[/font][font=宋体]‘[/font][font=Times New Roman]s responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties[/font][font=宋体]；[/font][font=Times New Roman] the hammers that hit the string have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion[/font][font=宋体]，[/font][font=Times New Roman] and each overlapping tone has to sound clear.[/font][/color][/size]
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[size=3][color=#29384e][font=宋体] [/font][font=Times New Roman]This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student conductors[/font][font=宋体]：[/font][font=Times New Roman] they have to learn to know every note of the music and how it should sound[/font][font=宋体]，[/font][font=Times New Roman] and they have to aim at controlling these sound with fanatical but selfless authority.[/font][/color][/size]
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[color=#29384e][font=宋体][size=10.5pt] [/size][/font][size=10.5pt]Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in any centur[/size][/color]
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