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Re: Standardized Stage Band Articulation

Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2007-04-25 19:36

I've found that these differ from area to area. I've known of some arrangers who notate "swing rhythm" with eighth notes given alternate dashes and dots, while other use the instruction "Swing" at the top of the chart while still others use the "correct" but hard as hell to read two tied triplet eighths followed by the third note of the set.

Similarly, I was taught when a youngster that the various amounts of emphasis on single notes were called "a bump" and "a hit". I've also seen talk of calling a note that anticipates the next beat a "push'.

As soon as anyone tries to set up a "standard" there's always going to be someone who wants to use "their" pet system - poof, there goes your standard.

In other musical trivia that's recently come to my attention, I learned this weekend that the musical director for The Andy Griffin Show was none other that Earle Hagen, composer of Harlem Nocturne. That ranks right up there with the discovery that Milton DeLug, former musical director of not only The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson but also of the infamous Gong Show, wrote the tune for Orange Colored Sky, and that Morrie Amsterdam wrote Drinking Rum and Coca-Cola...

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