In a message dated 3/15/07 7:35:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a task that I fear is going to be quite a project. I > >have a piece (well, a section of one) that is in much too slow > >a tempo to be "felt" by a performer. Right now, it is at > >quarter note=38. In order to make this more playable, I need > >to change the tempo to quarter=76, double all note values, > I wouldn't.
I did the opposite to a piece once on advice from a more experienced composer. The slower doubled time makes the piece look easier to read and actually I did get more performances by doing it...Bach did the slow doubled look... Vivian Adelberg Rudow Up coming performance in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Peabody Conservatory of Music: THE SKY SPEAKS, Clouds, Peabody Singers Chorus, Lindsay Thompson, soprano, Lauren Latessa, cello, Adam Rosenblatt & Candy Chiu, percussion and Stefan Petrov, piano, Edward Polochick, conductor, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Thursday, March 29, 2007, 7:30PM, Griswold Hall. Tickets $18.00, Seniors $10.00, students, $8.00. Recent performance: CALL FOR PEACE, flute and tape, performance An Die Musik, Baltimore Composers Forum, December 1, 2006, 8:00PM, Sara Nichols, flute 20th ASCAP Plus Award www.vivianadelbergrudow.com ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
