Tim Mahon wrote:

>Hector Aguilar asks (regarding Gould's humming):
>
>>I wonder if this "syndrome" has a name. . . .:-)
>
>If not, why don't we call it "Gouldism", since the majority of responders
>seem to think it doesn't distract or detract? Might as well celebrate him
>for another reason!

A college room mate of mine was taking piano instruction from a well
known professor who also vocalized during his playing.  My room mate
puzzled over a contemporary score which bore the German marking "singend"
("singingly") and he wondered whether this an instruction as to phrasing
or whether actual vocalization of the sort he had heard from his instructor
was called for here.

Walter Meyer