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Author: janlynn
Date: 2009-04-15 20:50
This might sound like a strange question but was just wondering how long it takes you to prepare a piece for performance. Like a sonata or a concerto. from never seeing the piece, to practicing, and then performing. does it typically take weeks or months?
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2009-04-15 21:28
The short answer: As much time as I can spend.
Depends very largely on the difficulty of the piece. Hard to make a generalization. I premiered a 5-minute solo piece of moderate difficulty with about 2 weeks of prep. The average difficult-ish sonata (say Poulenc), I'd spend a couple months on before giving it a first go.
Usually, though, it's not so much a matter of "how much time should I spend on it" as "how long until the concert?" I'll know when the performance is, and pace myself accordingly. Ideally, I'll have it all under my fingers at least a couple weeks before performing it, and can just have fun with it from there on out.
I prefer to be working on a handful of things at once, so it's really hard to say how long I'd prep on any given piece, and harder still to say when I'd really started working on it. Sight unseen, I'd be uncomfortable tackling a sonata without at least two months to prep, perhaps one month in a bind.
This is all for solo rep, of course.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: mrn
Date: 2009-04-15 21:42
I don't know that there is a typical answer, because it depends on a lot of things: what piece it is, whether you've heard it played before, how technically difficult is it to play, how long it takes to understand it on a musical level, whether you need to play it memorized (which is the norm for concertos but not necessarily for sonatas), how difficult is it to put together with the accompaniment, how often and how long per session you practice, how effective your practice time is, how good a sight reader you are, how familiar you are with that style of music (and the technical demands it requires), and how close to ideal you expect your performance to be.
In my experience, this can range anywhere from a few hours or days to a few months--it all depends.
I think most of the time, though, (and I think I can get away with saying that this is true for professionals as well as amateurs) it boils down more to how much time we've been allotted (until the concert, recital, contest, audition, jury, etc.).
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