On 16 Sep 2011 at 23:56, John Howell wrote: > By rights we should require good sightreading as > a prerequisite before we accepted any student as > a college music major, but if we actually did > that we wouldn't have any voice majors at all > (except the smart ones, many of whom started > taking piano at around the age of 7!!).
You seem to be dancing around the problem -- someone who decides to pursue the study of singing probably doesn't know that they want to do that until they are 17 or 18 years old, precisely because the body and the voice don't mature soon enough for them to realize they have an instrument worth training. If they haven't already had solid training on a musical instrument, they'll land in college as a bare novice, with little or none of the musical rudiments in place that you'd expect from a 12-year-old pianist, for instance. It's the nature of the instrument, and there's not much can be done about it, seems to me. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
