Klarinet Archive - Posting 000251.txt from 2005/07

From: "David Blumberg" <blummy@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] re: Tempo for Rose 32 Etudes #6 & #21
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:44:44 -0400

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AnneLenoir@-----.net (Anne Lenoir)
Cc: bell@-----.com
Subject: Tempo for Rose 32 Etudes #6 & #21
Message-ID: <16752-42E4762F-1587@-----.net>

I am helping students to prepare these etudes for an upcoming audition
for chair seating and eventually for Colorado All State. The band
directors have marked #21 at a quarter=60. Isn't that a wee bit fast,
as it is counted in eighths (an 8th=120) to get all the subdivisions to
sound leizurely? It isn't a Souza march, but a lovely piece marked
Andante Cantabile. I would think that it should be an 8th=50 or even 44.
What about #6? The band directors have marked it at a quarter=104.
That also seems a bit rushed to me. I would think that 84 would be fast
enough. What's the big rush? Is anybody out there knowledgeable about
Tempos for Rose 32 Etudes? ANNIE
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Annie, it doesn't matter. Auditions such as that often want the music played
exactly as printed. It it's marked at 60, they want it at 60, not 66, not
54. What gets really compilcated is when there's a misprint in the music -
the "fine band directors" in my area (Phila suburbs) specify that they want
it exactly as printed with no deviation - wrong printed notes too!! Exact
words were from the President of the Org. as I've judged the auditions many
times "this is a band directors festival, not a private teachers festival".
That was in reply to a question "should the student play what is on the
page, or what is correct?".

Last I checked, Band Directors were supposed to be musicians too.......

That being said, typically I do change the wrong notes and have them play
the tempo that makes the most sense for them and the music.

David Blumberg
http://www.mytempo.com - Galper Key is back!

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