Hi Dennis, It's funny -- none of the players in my circles would bat an eye at being asked to "sing and whistle and make various mouth sounds while playing." In fact most of them welcome this stuff! It's all in a days' work.
But they all, uniformly, cross out phrase beaming when given it and pencil in metrical beaming, every time and everywhere they see it (including in Bartók, Berg, etc). Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Oct 31, 2012, at 11:05 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <bath...@maltedmedia.com> wrote: > On Wed, October 31, 2012 10:41 pm, Darcy James Argue wrote: >> Do the musicians in your circles genuinely feel that "Phrase-beaming is more >> legible than a clutter of accents"? Because I've honestly never met a single >> musician who believes this. Every instrumentalist I've ever talked to about >> this issue absolutely *hates* phrase-beaming > > No, I have never once had a complaint or a missed note because of phrase > beaming. And they certainly do complain loudly about other stuff. Maybe > they're just used to seeing it. Heck, a large youth orchestra didn't slip up > at all a few years ago when they had different phrase beaming in each > orchestral choir in irregular measures. I had two commissions go out in the > past month with phrase beaming, and the players are working away without a > peep about that aspect of them ... plenty of peeps about asking the > percussionist and harpist to sing and whistle and make various mouth sounds > while playing, I must admit. > > Guess I'm too old to worry who gets their knickers in a twist because it > doesn't look like what's in their dog-eared exercise books. (Maybe there > should be better exercise books.) > > D > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
