Just a comment without discussion. First rehearsal Monday for a
Broadway show from the mid-'50s. Hand copied, generally VERY
readable. But the copyist put all the articulations above the notes,
NOT at the noteheads, and it drove me crazy! I simply don't look for
them there, so in sightreading they get ignored. I know, you should
give people what they're used to seeing, but string players are NOT
used to seeing this, and the copyist obviously didn't know that.
(He also omitted key signatures at the beginning of each line, which
is also frustrating since there can be 3 key changes on any given
page, but that's a different discussion.)
John
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John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
(mailto:john.how...@vt.edu)
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
"We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition
of jazz musicians.
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