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A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a ( Z-~Eh  
work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great gv7(-I  
responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and m'|{AjH z6  
as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most ?nWK s  
training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an y/!h.[  
athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords would be 5v51:g>c  
inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left bERYC|  
hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm—two entirely different P<AN`un  
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Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared this `4Jlf!  
particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner’s Za+26#g  
responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that M" |Mte  
hit the string have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound Vz$X0C=W;H  
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know every note of the music and how it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these &"vh=Z-  
sound with fanatical but selfless authority. #!,tI
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Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists l1X&Nw1W  
are those who are so thoroughly at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing -V Rby  
works written in any century. ISy\g`d`C