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 Re: Sight reading timing - hints on how to do it
Author: seabreeze 
Date:   2022-01-13 06:00

The truth is that Western classical music has not paid as much theoretical attention to rhythm and meter as it has to most other aspects of music such as tuning, counterpoint, harmony, voice leading, dissonance and resolution, tonality, orchestration, ornamentation, form and development, etc. Other world classic music traditions have developed methods of keeping track of rhythmic subdivision and complexity in music that surpass our typical training. To learn to read rhythm and meter really well (rhythmic solfege) one might want to draw on the methods used outside Western tradition. One source would be the Carnatic music of south India. Not only do the tabla (percussion) and sitar players in that tradition practice a sophisticated method of counting and subdividing the beat, but even the dancers can do it, and keep up with the instrumentalists. Richard Hoffman drew from this tradition when he developed his system of Takadimi, which follows the Carnatic practice of assigning syllables to note values and rhythmic subdivisions. Look at the 3 part introduction to Takadimi applied to Westen classical music--on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=getting+started+with+the+Takadimi+rhythm+counting+system
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Takadimi+rhythm+counting+system+part+3.


Sure this system takes some time and practice to learn well. But no more time and practice than scales, arpeggios, and finger technique patterns. My Indian friends who have been trained in rhythm solfege systems like this find any clarinet music I show them to be simple and completely transparent rhythmically--even pieces as complex as the Eliot Carter Concerto or the Stravinsky Story of a Soldier (or his Rite of Spring)! They can clap their hands immediately and accurately to the rhythmic patterns as well as fluently vocalize them.

Bassoonist Bill Douglas worked with his friend Richard Stolzman for a time to develop a system of rhythm solfege drawn from non-Western music, including African, Arabic, and Indian, as well as American jazz. The need for this is great and no doubt many people are working out their own versions.



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