At 11:42 AM -0600 4/6/06, Bruce Petherick wrote:
Michael Cook wrote:
Do you know any human musician who can play that exactly as written?
this question hoes a long road. There are pianists that I know
(Michael Finnissy, Ian Pace par example) that can, but perhaps the
point is that it is not supposed to be exactly, but written out
rubato.
devil's advocate
Bruce Petherick
Not arguing one way or another, but there comes a point when a
composer's anal retentive compulsion to take all choice away from the
performer no longer makes any sense, and that composer would do
better to do without living performers. I play in a community band
in which the saxes cannot swing, and the trombones have to be tricked
into it. No amount of icky-picky notation bending would change that
in my lifetime.
One of the things I try to teach in my vocal arranging class is that
it is basically useless to try to capture every jot and tittle on a
singer's CD when you are transcribing the performance. Some things
that singers do very naturally simply cannot be notated in any way
that a living singer could read and duplicate. It's called style,
it's very personal and individual, and it's an inherent quality of
any music; the better the performer, the more s/he contributes to the
performance.
That said, what the client wants, the client should get!
John
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