When I was in school, opera arias, showtunes and art songs were memorized, oratorio was not (but you should only use music as a reference). I was told it was performance practice. My dad commented "Gee, you didn't use music for all them foreign songs, but you needed music for the ones in English."
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Howell Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:06 PM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Finale] RE: Memorizing Music (was: Blowing O.T.) At 5:55 PM -0700 7/19/05, Ken Durling wrote: >I personally would always prefer having score in ensemble pieces, >and prefer memorization for soloists and conductors. This is also >the way many competitions are run - requiring memorization for >soloists but not for ensembles. It only makes sense, IMHO. > >ken I always memorized all my solo music for performances and competitions. It was just what people did. In the last several years at this school, the instrumental faculty seem to have stopped requiring memorization for juries and recitals. The vocal faculty still expect it and insist on it. Go figure. As a conductor, however, the kind of in-depth score study taught by Julius Herford at Indiana has, as a side effect, the memorization of the score in detail. (He is the man who taught score study to Robert Shaw, and Shaw freely admitted his debt to Herford.) John -- John & Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
