At 1:26 PM -0400 7/7/10, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Wed Jul 7, at WednesdayJul 7 1:11 PM, John Howell wrote:
Absolutely. Case in point: we're in rehearsal for our annual
summer musical (The Pajama Game, 1954), and the string books are
filled with pizz., arco, con sordino, and senza sordino markings
that ARE NOT CANCELLED! We're having to make it up as we go along.
Heh heh! That's more than likely from the arranger's actual score.
We arrangers (blush!) are notorious for putting specialty techniques
in (like mutes and pizz) and then forgetting to cancel them. I have
to make a special pass through the score just to check for those
markings, because I always forget to cancel them.
Yeah. Me too. I don't always write straight through, and might well
jump from place to place and then go back and fill in, so I have to
do exactly the same. And no matter how many times you check, the
number of errors will always be n + 1.
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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