This particular group seems to do very well with the explanation that notation of music is only partially exact, and largely spiritual. They aren't big arguers.That's just a different way of notating the same effect. There's a slight psychological difference between the two, I suppose--but trust me, you don't want to go there.<<
One argument that always comes up is when to cut off a sustained note at the end of a phrase when singing in a group. For example, if the chorus is sustaining a whole note in 4/4 time, I teach that they must sustain for four beats and begin silence on the first beat of the next measure. There is always one girl, always a girl, who argues that that is sustaining it for an extra beat because to her it *seems* like an extra beat. When the argument came up this year, I asked her to explain when she thought we *should* cut off, and she said "before".
Crystal Premo
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