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Author: psychotic lil clarinet girl (don't as
Date: 2005-01-08 02:07
HEHE! I'M SO HAPPY! I placed 64th out of 135 people... My score was 123/200... I was 10 off from making last alternate for mid-state... And I got a higher score than our SECOND CHAIR clarinet player... hehe... I was so happy... All the other clarinet players from my school beat me by maybe 4-6 points... Which means, I'm not far off from them... Which means, THERE IS HOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, and this is senior high mid-state...
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Author: kIt-KaT_75
Date: 2005-01-08 23:27
hey congratulations u must be pretty good . i wish i could do that .well good luck! and keep on doing your best!
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Author: kal
Date: 2005-01-09 07:18
...but please, PLEASE stop abusing those poor ellipses.
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2005-01-09 11:56
Congratulations.
I'm sorry but I'm a total stranger to clarinet student ranking system in US.
Could you briefly explain how that works or lead me to any previous posting?
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: psychotic lil clarinet girl (don't as
Date: 2005-01-09 17:15
It's for mid-state... mid-state is where a bunch of people from the middle of that state try out to be in the mid-state band... They score you on scales, sightreading, and prepared... and the score is out of 200... My score was 123/200, which placed me at 64th out of 135 people... understand now?
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2005-01-09 21:02
Like everything else here in the education game, music has fallen to "metrics" and testing and quantification.
It has reached its apogee (although others might place it at the other extreme) in the writing of "graded" competition music, music designed to meet a particular degree of "difficulty" so that all groups are playing music from a common pool, the better for grading.
I have been able to experience this "change" from my schooling days (back in the middle of the last century) on a couple of occasions. One was when a teacher friend asked me to fill in as a juror in a three-county band competition (junior high school level - ninth grade in our K through 12th system). In that case, I was alarmed at the nature of the music that was being played by the groups.
At a level where I had been playing transcriptions of stuff like La Gazza Landra and 1812 Overture, they were performing "Level" whatever pieces of modern composition with names like "Blaze Of Glory (A Concert March)". All in all, the music seemed "dumbed down" from what I had played, but I was told (by the educators I was working with) that this "was the rule" these days.
The other is one that I have to experience periodically when I help out with our local "teaching" big band. It's a mostly high school group (some college folk and adults like me helping out), and most of what they play is music acquired from the various schools in the district (a huge one, to be sure).
While there is never a shortage of trumpets, alto and tenor saxes, and tenor trombones, they occasionally have problems with baritone sax, bass trombone, piano and alto and baritone pitched vocalists. I was brought in by my backup bass trombonist, and I help out when the number of baritone players turns up wanting (or the ones that do are rhythmically challenged, as is their current kid).
Where the concert band "contest music" was without much in the way of soul, the stuff that this group uses is, to be brutally frank, crap. Again written to a standard, most of the "graded" arrangements are in one of three different keys, and are of the same, unvarying pattern, where the theme is carried by a section at a time, with the inevitable "drum break" planted somewhere in the middle.
I've had my arrangers make me a second copy of some of our professional arrangements (at a reduced price) for this group, and it's amazing how different (and much better) the "original" Tuxedo Junction sounds when played after the "Advanced Level II" version ginned up for contest purposes. But, that's not what the annual festivals are looking for - they apparently want consistent arrangements that can be placed on a continuum.
Musical education may have gained something from all of the "grading" that seems to be shot through it these days, but it also takes some of the fun and the beauty from it as well. Along with the heavy emphasis on marching band for half of the year, I feel that it hurts more than helps. But, what do I know?
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Author: poopsie
Date: 2005-01-10 22:00
Haha! congrats! I am a tennesseean also. (didn't try out though) Our only clarinet player that tried out got a 86th ranking, I think. (middle tennessee area) Good job!
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Author: Robert Moody
Date: 2005-01-10 22:26
I wonder how I would have done. ![[frown]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie2.gif)
Robert Moody
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