Any Sight Readers Of Musical Score Here?

[barry1010]

Just curious really. When you first see a musical score you have never heard played, can you ‘hear’ it as you read it?

[pixie374]

Yes... you just imagine the sound in your head.

[Old_Geezer]

Don't have perfect pitch, but if not that complicated I can run through the treble intervals ok. I suspect most can.

[EdmundD]

Me no, but I knew a classically trained musician who said that when he was learning a new piece he just read the score for two weeks before picking up his instrument.

[barry1010]

Very interesting, thank you. I can sight read a very simple score but really don’t get an idea of how it sounds until I play it.

[pixie374]

Just practice, Barry. You obviously can do it.

[barry1010]

I've been reading music for over 50 years, Pixie, I'll never be able to 'hear' it on sight. I can play guitar (badly) but can never tune it.

[pixie374]

Fair enough, Barry.... I don't have Perfect pitch either. I don't think many people do (my dad and flute teacher do). But you can get a good idea.

[barry1010]

I can 'hear' the rhythm. I'd like to be able to 'name that tune' from a score

[pixie374]

As long as it is a tune you know... you can practise? You will know close enough how it should sound.

[The Builder]

If it's any help, Barry, whenever a new piece was put in front of me, my teacher would tell me to put down the horn and just "tap" out the rhythm.
i.e. tap out the quavers/semiquavers/rests etc in a monotone.
I've always found the rhythmic part of any tune comes before having to bother with the actual notes. If you know what I mean.

Once you have the swing of the tune, adding the notes is a lot easier.

[Togo]

This will mesmerise you if you want visuals.

[pixie374]

https://youtu.be/MgRV4FoKRnE

[derekpara]

I believe that many of the Jazz pianists of the past could not only read and play a musical score on first sight but could also transpose it to another key at the same time.
As a poor tickler of the ivories I find that astonishing. However, once,when I mentioned this to the Director of Music of the Welsh Guards he confirmed that many of his band members could do the same. They are, apparently, trained to concert level on at least two instruments and often 'loaned' to civilian symphony orchestras who needed a player at short notice.

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[barry1010]

Thanks for all your answers, food for thought as usual :)

[Peter Pedant]

Raymond Leppard could - mediaeval music fella
he cd pick up a manuscript from you know 1690 and see whether it was worf performing again - - or not
( stravinsky - Vivaldi is just one concerto written out 614 times)

and when I was on an archeological site - one of the directors could. He brought a score along wivvim. He wrote up the musical instruments from the pharaohs tombs in the British Museum

but I cant ( I cd when I was a yodelling boy treble er in 1965)

[Peter Pedant]

// but could also transpose it to another key at the same time.//
any grade viii shd be able to - - - its tested isnt it

The stripper ( der da da daaaah....) copyright Mick Jagger incredibly ( I have seen rather than read the sheet music) is in F+ major ( lots and lots of black notes) and someone said - o god I am going to play it in G ( semitone higher) none of you lot will notice ....

as a tenor I hardly made it out of backing singer

[Peter Pedant]

// Jazz pianists of the past could not only read and play a musical score on first sight//

a lot cdnt - scott joplin cd and so his music lives on. He said at the time Prof Chopin ( there were alot of deep south blacks wiv names like that) was much better but cdnt transcribe ....and so we have no idea what he sounded like

Chopin - d 1848 - the last person to hear him died in 1936 (cd be done - he was five in 1848) was so technical that musical notation cdnt show what he was doing. ( used rubrato alot) ( listeners at the time said)

[Patsy33]

LondonBeat, 9am.
One of my favourite songs/ harmonies, Mozz.

[Patsy33]

^^^^
Apologies. Wrong thread!

[lady-janine]

As long as it is simple, then yes.