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 Re: Sight reading timing - hints on how to do it
Author: kehammel 
Date:   2022-01-19 06:25

I once played in a renaissance band, and the rhythms in some of that music can get really hairy. Maybe the hardest was La Spagna by Josquin des Prez:

https://imslp.org/wiki/La_Spagne_(Josquin_Desprez)

The parts tend to move independently, and sight reading it correctly was beyond us. Even subsequent playings sometimes resulted in a train wreck, because an error in counting by any one player made it really tough to hear where you had to be.

A professional musician in our group provided a pretty good solution- He said don't hesitate to number and mark the principal beats in every single measure (literally 1 & 2 & 3 &, even though the placement of measures is arbitrary in music of this era).

It might seem like something only a rank beginner would do, but in this case it really helped. The idea is to keep the pulse in one's head, drop a note or two if you have to reorient yourself, and use the marked beats as a visual guide to get back in quickly.
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