At 3:55 PM -0400 5/28/06, Darcy James Argue wrote:
I should also have mentioned the soloist's part should *never* include a page turn in mid-solo. This seems glaringly obvious, but you wouldn't believe how often composers/arrangers who copy their own parts make this mistake.
Well, such parts obviously ASSUME that a soloist will memorize and play without music. But here's what I'm seeing at the college level, and I assume that it's probably a trend all over the country. Voice teachers still expect and insist that their students memorize their songs. Instrumental teachers do not, and that's a BIG change from when I was a student. (Piano teachers are a tossup, and it seems to depend on the individual.) Of course when I was a student and memorized concerto movements to play in public, I still read off the music playing the Bach Double Concerto.
If this IS a trend, engravers have to keep it in mind. Obviously if the guitar solo in question were to be performed from memory, page turns would be a non-issue.
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