> 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. Far from always. Often it is simply memorized. Especially in the hands of a white middle-class college-kid. RT
>> 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. > > >
