> [email protected] wrote: > You all must have been really good sight readers!
At the time I was paying with a Collegium Musicum that was the typical repetoire, and, yes, we were all at least good at sight reading from necessity. I was also active in church choir, a madrigals group, and a choral society, it wasnt all lute, nor was it all playing at sight. The intense workouts challenged all of us to grow, and so we did. I came in able to play much from memory, but less at sight, especially in certain keys or at tempo. I soon developed the ability to play at least some of the notes at tempo, filling in as my LH became more clever, or perhaps I was learning the riffs. After a couple years witht he CM I had a pretty good sight-playing ability, but I still needed to work on pieces between sessions. We began each season with the directors choice of potential repetoire, a large stack of manilla folders to be considered. Several weeks of sight-play using a varied orchestration followed, only he knew what the final choices would be for the concert, or what orchestration would be used. Some years I played lots of different instruments and played in most pieces, others I only sang. Lots of fun and an excellent challenge, take it up eagerly if you have the chance. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
