Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-08-04 19:02
Royston:
First (in the interest of clear communication) I am gleaning that your above reference, from context, ("carefully reading")--which it appears is what she's more doing on the Bumblebee performance, not the Spohr, is your area of focus.
Unless Ms. Marjanov possess some, quite literally, out of the world musical sight reading ability--the music she looks so intently at is nothing more than a series of metaphorical index cards, as a speaker might take with them to a otherwise well rehearsed presentation.
The "muscle memory" you refer to I'm all but certain is quite alive and well is Ms. Marjanov's performance.
"Do you guys ever go into performing such a fast passage without muscle memory and relying on reading."
(Satire) Only the performers who are "monitored by the Men in Black."
http://tinyurl.com/y8x37tzu
"Bumblebee" is a classic example of a piece of music that is learned through repetition, initially taken at extremely slow metronomic pace, and worked faster at extremely slow pace. What I think we are seeing here is the illusion of sight reading, in her careful visual intent on what otherwise might simply be small type music (or subject to acuity loss via, for example, repetitive "photocopy wash") with lots of "black ink"--code speak teachers of mine have used for notes that subdivide the beat at 16ths, 32nds and beyond.
Lest anyone infer from above (I really don't know how) that I am minimizing Ms. Marjanov skill, otherwise so amazed by it to initial post, as nothing more than hard work; mere parroting..........with the circular breathing added no less, allow me to postulate that in world of 7.5 billion, that the number of people who could do that as well is represented by a 3 digit number, maybe a 2 digit number.
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"Don't let the black ink psych you out," a teacher of mine once said in reference to another piece.
"We can write it in 8th notes if you like, we just have to put the metronome on 320," he said with a smile---knowing that even with the head cleared, the music was still quite a challenge.
Post Edited (2017-08-04 20:59)
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