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Re: Adjudicators

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Subject: Re: Adjudicators
From: "Gareth Dunley" <Dunley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:04:16 -0000
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Colin Harris wrote (quoting!)

> (3rd section_ in the draw meeting - if a piece is marked crotchet = 106,
> with no circa or approx, then you play it at that speed.

I DETEST metronome markings. I have yet to find a piece of music which any
capable musician can't play at a reasonably sensible tempo.  To be told that
I must play a piece at a set tempo removes a major element of musical
interpretation from the performance and relegates the conductor to the
position of time - keeper. You might as well give a list of dynamic marks in
decibels and go the whole hog! Why use Italian tempo markings at all if you
are simply going to dictate the tempo scientifically? I can do all that on
the computer. It prints beautifully, but it's not a musician. I don't mind a
circa marking for those incapable  of working it out for themselves (are
there really any band conductors THAT bad?) but  please allow some artistic
interpretation.

Sorry to keep being antagonistic on this group, but some issues just make me
mad. There are so many superb players in the brass band world and yet so
many amateur attitudes - just because we don't get paid doesn't mean we
can't at least try to be professional in our approach.

Gareth Dunley

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