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Author: musica
Date: 2024-07-26 18:22
Any suggestions for keeping a steady beat and not falling into the river while currents flowing and changing around you while conductor is ebbing and flowing with melody?
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Author: kdk
Date: 2024-07-26 20:57
The conductor shouldn't be doing any ebbing that he doesn't make up for with the flowing. In other words, if he/she wants to use any kind of rubato (if that's his interpretation of lusingando), the overall time should remain steady underneath. If the conductor is actually changing tempo you just have to grit your teeth (figuratively) and try to arrive at the first beat of each bar with the stick. The flutes and clarinets are the only ones with rhythmic figures until the horns and trombones enter, and the clarinets are explicitly background to the flutes. So small discrepancies won't be noticed by anyone who isn't listening for them.
Ideally, it seems to me, this passage shouldn't even need a conductor so long as the strings can hear the flutes and clarinets and the musicians can all read music.
Karl
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Author: LFabian
Date: 2024-07-30 19:24
You’ve got to practice with a metronome. Mark your breath marks and how far you can go before going off beat. My work sheet indicated repeated measures and those that change. Try for not going off. Not easy. But Adrian dropped the normal tempo for this section. Easier on the clarinets. It may be boring but we could get unglued if we had senior flashes. Stay alert.
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