In an orchestra the players are acting as a sequencer and their job is to reproduce the written music accurately. The musical value comes from the conductor - who usually has the score in front of him, but, if he's any good, he doesn't actually need it. That's why experiments with conductorless orchestras are generally flops.
And, no, blues isn't memorized - it's created during the performance... a whole different art. > HAs it ever occurred to you that all orchestral (and most small-ensemble) > music is sightread, always? > And all them mediocre blues are played from memory, ain't they? > RT > > >>I suspect his other 4-5 Haydn sonata (sightread) would have been just as >> mediocre as sightread music usually is. >> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I strongly agree with Roman of his comment below! >>> >>> Arto >>> >>> On Thu, 4 May 2006, Roman Turovsky wrote: >>> >>>> > Hmmm.. Tab may be hard to memorize (don't know - never tried), but >>>> music >>>> > isn't, lol. IMO, if you need to read to play in performance you >>>> don't >>>> know >>>> > the music and you might as well just program it into a sequencer >>>> (which >>>> > can read it much more accurately than you can). >>>> Lute music is not exactly "green onions", you know..... >>>> That's why even our virtuosi like to read as they play. >>>> Not everyone thinks that memorization is such a wonderful thing. >>>> Svyatoslav >>>> Richter once said that if he weren't forced to play from memory he >>>> wouldn't >>>> be stuck with his limited [sic!] repertoire. He would have liked to >>>> play >>>> 5-6 >>>> Haydn sonatas in concert, rather than 1, but sightreading just wasn't >>>> done >>>> in the old country. >>>> RT >>>> == >>> >> >> >> -- >> http://DoctorOakroot.com - Rough-edged songs on homemade GIT-tars. >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > > -- http://DoctorOakroot.com - Rough-edged songs on homemade GIT-tars.
