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Re: Mozart, Bach and time signatures

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-09-05 23:10

So many great answers here, so I'm just gonna add one thing. Often when I buy or listen to an orchestra I'll try to pick a recording based on a conductor I believe in. For example I've always admired conductors such as Geor Solti often with the Chicago Symphony and George Szell with the Cleveland Orchestra. As for bands I've liked Arnold Gabriel with the Air Force Band and Frederic Fennall with the Eastman School of Music. There are of course many, many, others. Too many to list.

So my point is I feel these conductors seem to have a keen ability to zero in on the composer's time signatures and much more so it's a pleasure to hear performances by some of these masters. By the way, music halls also matter. I often choose recordings based on the halls, such as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orch and some of the European halls. I will pick these halls over the Kennedy Center for example.

So when you are trying to find your answers to a piece sometimes you can go to a recording or recordings and figure out how you want to play a section the piece.

Lastly, I have a pretty nice speaker system called NHT's, but don't run out and buy these, the old ones are great and the company was sadly bought out. I found out about them when doing a recording and the studio was using these speakers. You can still find them used called VT-3, or the 3.0. Costing a fortune back in the day, $10,000 for 2. But I really like quality headsets and my favorites are Grada, a small company located in New York I think. Some cost up to $3000 and up, but you don't need to spend this kind of money. Mine run around $300 and they will beat out anything around the $1000 mark, such as Sony, Beats, any of them. So my point is hearing great music can surely help musicians become even better! Or non musicians still enjoy hearing wonderful performances with inexpensive headsets. When I was in music school we were REQUIRED to attend fellow performances of classmates and I disliked being ordered to attend these recitals and concerts. I felt this got in the way of my practice time, but now I feel sometimes your practice time should include hearing some great performances so we all have a better understanding of the composers. Hope I didn't bore too many. I thought this may help.

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