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Re: Own choice contests

I wrote: 
> 
>   >When I have conducted test pieces in concerts......

Alec wrote:

> David
> 
> While I agree with pretty much everything you say on this matter,

(well thank you!)

> could I persuade you (and all other like-minded people) to stop 
> referring to pieces
> of music which just happen to have been used, or commissioned as
> test-pieces, as test-pieces.  It implies that the work was written primarily
> as a test of technique, as opposed to a piece of music for its own sake.  It
> is of course conceivable that one or two pieces have in the past been
> written predominantly as technical exercises, but this isn't so in the vast
> majority of cases.  Many people automatically equate the term 'test-piece'
> with 'something unlistenable', or 'something requiring me to concentrate for
> more than three minutes'.   Examples of such pieces include, er, The Force
> of Destiny Overture, Carnival Overture etc etc etc!!  Surely some mistake?!

Yes of course - I agree 100%!!!   Its so easy to fall into that trap 
because for much of the time (i.e. when we rehearse and contest with 
them) they really are test pieces, and its a convenient term to use 
to bundle them all together for discussion though there must be 
better words to use, for all the reasons you give.

Thanks
David 


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