[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Contest scoring
> From: Mark.Tanser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 09:21:21 BST
> To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Contest scoring
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> >Having attended my first contest on Sunday at Basildon, I was wondering if
> >someone could enlighten me as to how the scores are decided. Does the
> >adjudicator have some kind of checklist to score against?
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> I wouldn't have thought an adjudicator has a checklist - but any decent
> adjudicator will know what he's looking for before he gets into his(or in some
> cases her) box.
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> Mark Tanser
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I've argued for some thime that there should be some set of nationally
agreed criteria against which judges can check their grades. I am
about to go and assess our final year students' recitals and they
know precisely what they have to do in order to get an 'A' grade,
since it is published in their handbook. It wouldn't take a genius
to calculate some sort of generalised checklist of criteria such as this:
General impressions: 20%
Tonal qualities 10%
Intonation 15%
Soloists 15%
Dynamics and balance 10%
Rhythmic ensemble 10%
Tempi/musical interpretation etc 20%
I confess this isn't all inclusive and hat we would need a different
set for entertainment contests (and possibly for different sections)
but it would go some way to avoiding the 'your-second-
triangle-was-a-beat-late-after-letter-X-so-I'm-going-to-place-you
-last' sort of result, where the adjudicator becomes preoccupied with
some detail of which the performers are not aware. It would also
act as a moderator when two or more adjudicators were employed. In
conjunction with a tick box format it would also mean that
adjudicators could spend less time writing and more time listening.
I have a set of remarks by an adjudicator (coincidentally Roy Roe) in
which there is not one word of criticism of our performance, and he
describes our intonation as 'perfect'. You guessed, we came seventh
out of eight (Brighton 1991) and didn't have a clue where we came.
David
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