On 5 Jan 2004 at 13:52, Phil Daley wrote: > At 1/5/2004 01:29 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >When I lived in Cleveland, I had the good fortune to be involved in > a >choir that sang Latin mass every Sunday, with a full polyphonic > >ordinary (drawn from both the great Renaissance repertory and from > >modern composers) and plus 1 to 3 polyphonic motets, with the rest > of >the proper sung in Gregorian chant for direct from the Liber > Usualis. >The group rehearsed for 3 hours on Sunday night and > performed the >service at noon on Sunday. > > 3 hour rehearsal? Volunteer? That's not going to happen in small > communities.
You don't need a 3-hour rehearsal to perform one piece in white notes. You *do* need it if you're preparing 45-60 minutes of music. > >My experience with teaching, especially in volunteer circumstances, > is >that people rise to your expectations -- expect little and you > get >exactly what you expect. Treat them as though you expect > professional >levels of accomplishment and you would be surprised > what they >accomplish. > > Of course, but you are not going to get 3 hour rehearsals, in my > experience. To prepare one piece in unfamiliar notation, you'll need more time than you would for a piece in familiar notation. You won't need 3 hours, because if it takes 3 hours to learn a piece in white notes, it would take 2 hours to learn it in 4/4. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
