At 02:42 AM 4/8/2008, Kevin Lawton wrote:
[...]However, if the musical notation
has been written well then I feel that a purely
'mechanical' rendering of all the information which
has been written is still a valid performance.
This, I think, is quite different from improvisation
(or
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Dear Andrew (and Kevin)
Good point(s). To me, at least, a performer (who is, as I said
previously, a re-creative artist, not a creative one, if he/she
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With song texts it is helpful to speak the text aloud as well as singing it.
Spoken lyrics are stored in another brain section as sung lyrics. (That's
why we get confused first and can't
Andrew,
While I really agree with you over the importance of
being able to both sight-read and memorise I'm afraid
that I can only disagree with 'Tablature is a
near-perfect medium for sight reading'. To be honest
I feel that tablature is a very imperfect medium
because it is inherently limited
, which would probably be a great way to
learn. If I just had a bit
more time...
Guy
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Hi all
I'm getting a lot of good advice from this thread, including some
techniques that I couldn't remember...
Thanks
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Well, all I can say for myself is that my sightreading abilities are
extremely bad.I can't read from the page if someone puts it in front of me
and asks me to do so. I generally get a tune in my head, use the dots to
translate it (not that good at learning by ear, either!) and
Dear Guy,
Couldn't agree more: musical literacy, like the other kind, is a
powerful tool. But (particularly amongst classical musicians--and
amongst those, perhaps particularly those trained for orchestral work)
the countervailing problems of literacy have perhaps received too
little
Hi all,
One thing I forgot to add in my previous message is that the other
thing I have tried to do of late is to play music away from the page
as much as possible. Since I have two small children running around
the house now (one is 3 years old, the other just turned 1), I don't
have a lot
. If I just had a bit
more time...
Guy
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Hi all,
One thing I forgot to add in my previous message
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