Author: Scaysie
Date: 2015-08-28 03:56
Forgive me for going off at a slight tangent and hopefully not hijacking the thread.......
Last night at Symphonic Wind Band practice (an A Grade band),our stand in conductor,Josh, as part of the warm up,shared an exercise he did with the kids in his primary (elementary ?) school.
He asked everyone to clap hands on the beat while he conducted. It was quite interesting to hear everones different interpretation of when they should start the note.
After practicing this for a while, and everyone listening for the collective sound ideally being at its lowest pitch, we played the warm up scale and the difference was profound
Also.....as our band is quite large it was more than interesting to be aware of the time delay relationship between the movement of the baton , the individual musicians' position in relation to the conductor (baton),and ultimately what the audience hears. There can be a 0.5 sec difference between the flutes up the front and the percussion up the back and this might be what the audience hears!
Thanks to all for this very interesting conversation. When I was doing my B.Mus.Ed I was lucky to study Dalcroze Eurhythmics .....all about movement in time and space.
bmcgar...... I can recommend a cursory look at this work in establishing spacial awareness , duration of sound,direction ,phrasing etc. ,in making your walks in the backyard even more theraputic. Thanks again for the thread !!
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