At 6:13 PM -0500 1/6/06, Stephen Peters wrote:
John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
With respect, that is SO simplistic! It's an orchestrator's job not
only to know the extreme limits of range, but to know the limits for
different levels of players AND TO KNOW THE SPECIFIC SOUND OF EACH
SUBRANGE WITHIN THAT RANGE, if not each individual note. You don't
have to learn to play the instruments to do this, but it sure doesn't
hurt! If you don't have that knowledge, you aren't an orchestrator,
and you might as well be doing algebra problems.
Absolutely. It's no substitute for having the knowledge ingrained in
your head, which you'll get through study and practice. Sadly,
though, some of us are amateurs, and don't yet have the direct
brain-to-music map which will simply write out all the parts perfectly
as we hear them in our heads. I'm still stuck using this mouse and
this keyboard, and that's where most of the mistakes happen. :-)
I regard this as the equivalent of the little squiggly line under
words that MS Word doesn't understand. I'm a good speller, so most of
the time Word is flagging words that are perfectly fine. But it's
still nice to have the visual flag that something MIGHT be amiss, and
let me decide whether it actually is.
Understood and agreed.
John
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