I know we all have these problems with music, but I'll just take a moment to vent mine, as it's been driving my section crazy for the last year! I play in a small community band. While we own all the music in our library, it invariably gets passed from person to person through the years as players come and go. Some horn player several years back not only felt an important need to circle all key and time changes, many dynamic markings, accidentals, and occasionally little reminder messages to him/herself, but he or she did it all in red ink pen. Red! All over our horn music - and of course they must have rotated parts through the section all these years ago, b/c there is red ink on all parts, and for many, many pieces of music in our library. C'mon, people, we're horn players - we like to think we're among the brighter folks in the orchestra! Buy a pencil, write small, erase when you're done, and if you need to transpose, maybe think about writing it out on a little separate sheet of blank composition paper and keeping it with your music till you learn! Okay, I'm all done venting now. Thanks for putting up with it! Erin Block St. Louis, MO Dan Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 3, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Jim McDermott wrote:
> Obviously the music is rented. But as an amateur, if marking a > note or a fingering helps me play the passage properly, I'll > continue to do so. My rule is, 1 mistake is OK, but if I miss a > note twice, I mark it. And no, I did not learn my transpositions, > because all band music in America is transposed to F by the > publishers. I have no problem at all with marking up music in whatever way allows the performer to get it right, as long as those markings are done lightly in pencil, and then ***erased completely*** before the music is returned. Way too often, I have to read music that has been permanently disfigured and made much more difficult to read by previous users. It's a matter of common courtesy (as well as a contractual obligation in most cases) to clean up rental music before it is returned. Dan ================================ Dan Phillips Professor of Horn, University of Memphis webmaster: http://music.memphis.edu _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/ireland1006%40sbcglobal.net _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
