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Author: FDF
Date: 2007-06-09 14:14
In a thread about the most important advance in clarinet design, alseg wrote:
“Most significant?
The phonograph record....That way clarinetists had easy aural access to the playing of other musicians.”
A conductor, of one of the bands I play in, frequently refers to recordings of the music we play.
My question is what do you think is the best approach to playing music you’ve not heard? Do you use recordings to influence your playing, or do you interpret the sheet music?
Thanks.
Post Edited (2007-06-09 18:46)
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-06-09 14:24
I am a "by-ear" player. I can do some sight-reading, but once I have the tune in my head it's going a lot better. On pesky passages I have to clap/tap the rhythm separately until I know how it's working.
I don't know whether or not a recording would affect how I'm playing or rather interpreting a piece - I'm not quite there yet. Of course, you'll have an idea how a lick can be played, but whether or not you actually do play it is a different matter.
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Ben
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Author: jane84
Date: 2007-06-09 18:37
I too need to have played it through at least a few times before listening to any recording. Maybe I'm just afraid to be over-influenced, but that's what I usually do...unless I can't actually play it, technic- or rythm-wise, then I might listen to a recording to get the idea of the piece.
-jane
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2007-06-10 11:41
I learn the music first, then listen to a recording only once. If I want to hear it again, I will get a different recording.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2007-06-10 11:53
I never listen to any recording of something that I play... for the simple reason that anything I play doesn't have a recording by anyone else. For the same reason I don't play music I've heard (unles hearing it in my head before playing it counts).
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2007-06-10 19:37
I never listen to recording until I have thouroughly learned a piece. If all you do is copy records you will never develop your own powers of interpretation. When you learn from a recording you are placing another person between yourself and the composer.
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Author: Bubalooy
Date: 2007-06-10 20:35
Most musicians I know find my position extreme, but I think you shouldn't play the piece throught until you've analized it. The score gives the best advice as to how to play it. After that, listen away and see if you like other peoples ideas better.
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Author: SVClarinet09
Date: 2007-06-10 22:45
Usually when I have a new piece of music I learn it as is. I'm not the greatest sightreader in the world but I try my best to improve in that area as it is so vital to success. After I've learned the piece, I listen to a recording to catch any mistakes or to get inspiration for my own interpretation of the piece. For example, when I played Molly on the Shore this year for contest, a local university professor who had never heard the piece performed told us to play the triplets as written. I disagreed with him and my director didn't know what stance to take. Listening to dozens of recordings, I decided to play them as I heard them through recordings. The score usually has the most important information for a piece. Also, do background research on the piece to see what the piece is trying to display. And most of all, make music =]
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