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    Score Study Handout

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    Badin Sangsuriyan
    This document provides guidance on thoroughly analyzing a musical score in order to understand the composer's intent. It recommends both macro-level and micro-level detection methods. For macro detection, it suggests examining the text, historical context, listening to recordings, analyzing structure and harmony. For micro detection, it recommends numbering measures, marking articulations, emphasizing elements like dynamics, cues and tempo changes with colored pencils, and analyzing melodic contour and word stress. The goal is to discover all clues left by the composer through a detailed score study before rehearsing or conducting the piece.

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    Score Study Handout

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    This document provides guidance on thoroughly analyzing a musical score in order to understand the composer's intent. It recommends both macro-level and micro-level detection methods. For macro detection, it suggests examining the text, historical context, listening to recordings, analyzing structure and harmony. For micro detection, it recommends numbering measures, marking articulations, emphasizing elements like dynamics, cues and tempo changes with colored pencils, and analyzing melodic contour and word stress. The goal is to discover all clues left by the composer through a detailed score study before rehearsing or conducting the piece.

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    This document provides guidance on thoroughly analyzing a musical score in order to understand the composer's intent. It recommends both macro-level and micro-level detection methods. For macro detection, it suggests examining the text, historical context, listening to recordings, analyzing structure and harmony. For micro detection, it recommends numbering measures, marking articulations, emphasizing elements like dynamics, cues and tempo changes with colored pencils, and analyzing melodic contour and word stress. The goal is to discover all clues left by the composer through a detailed score study before rehearsing or conducting the piece.

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    80 views2 pages

    Score Study Handout

    Uploaded by

    Badin Sangsuriyan
    This document provides guidance on thoroughly analyzing a musical score in order to understand the composer's intent. It recommends both macro-level and micro-level detection methods. For macro detection, it suggests examining the text, historical context, listening to recordings, analyzing structure and harmony. For micro detection, it recommends numbering measures, marking articulations, emphasizing elements like dynamics, cues and tempo changes with colored pencils, and analyzing melodic contour and word stress. The goal is to discover all clues left by the composer through a detailed score study before rehearsing or conducting the piece.

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    Score

     Study:  
    Discovering  and  
    Detecting  the  
    Composer’s  Intent  
     
    “The  real  voyage  of  discovery  is  not  in  
    seeking  new  landscapes,  but  in  having  
      new  eyes.”              -­‐Marcel  Proust  
     
     
     
     
    LOOKING  AT  OUR  SCORE  WITH  NEW  EYES  (AND  EARS)  
    How  does  the  score  inform  our  GESTURE?  
    How  does  the  score  inform  our  REHEARSAL  TECHNIQUE?  
     
     
    GESTURAL  CONSIDERATIONS       REHEARSAL  CONSIDERATIONS  
    Cues  &  Cut-­‐off           Rehearsal  numbers/letters  
    Dynamics:  piano,  forte         Keys  and  modulations  
    Dynamics:  crescendo,  diminuendo       Harmony  
    Articulation:  marcato,  staccato,  legato,     Articulation  
      tenuto             Historical/National  Context  (Style  period)  
    Tempo    (MM  markings)         Tempo  (MM  markings)  
    Meter  changes           Meter  changes  
    Breathing  (phrasing?)         Phrasing  
    Fermatas             Clef/Transposition  
    Syncopation             Balance/Voicing  
    Structure/Form  
                  Emotional  Context  
                  Text  and  translation  
                   
     
    THOUGHTS  FROM  OTHER  CONDUCTORS:  
    Ann  Howard  Jones:  Choose  music  carefully  and  thoroughly  know  your  score  BEFORE  the  first  
    rehearsal.  
    Helmuth  Rilling:  “If  you  want  to  be  a  good  conductor,  score  preparation  will  require  much  work  
    ahead  of  time—much  solitary  work.”    
    Ken  Jennings:  Schedule  a  regular  time  for  practice  (alone  and  uninterruptible)!    
    Jerry  Blackstone:  LISTEN!  Learn  the  score,  Imagine  your  dream  choir,  Show  the  dream  through  
    gesture,  Transform  your  choir,  (En)spire  your  choir.  
    SCORE  STUDY:    
    DISCOVERING  AND  DETECTING  THE  COMPOSER’S  INTENT  
     
     
    MACRO  DETECTION  
    • Read  text  silently  and  aloud  
    • Analyze  poetry  and  structure  of  the  text,  and  discover  the  poet    (translate,  if  necessary)  
    o How  does  composer  set  the  poem?  
    o Does  s/he  make  changes?  
    • Discover  historical  significance,  understand  composer’s  time  period,  and  any  
    circumstances  surrounding  the  work  specifically    
    • Get  familiar  with  piece  completely  
    o Play  through  the  piece  on  the  piano  (as  many  parts  as  possible)  
    o Sing  through  parts  individually;  play  one  part,  sing  another,  etc.  
    o Listen  to  MULTIPLE  recordings  
    • 3-­‐tiered  approach  to  structure,  form  and  phrasing  
    o large  sections,  periods  or  smaller  sections,  phrases  
    o upper-­‐case  letter,  lower  case  letter,  phrase  delineation  (vertical  line)  
    • Analyze  harmonies  and  key  areas  
    • If  polyphonic,  mark  all  entrances  of  themes,  subjects,  etc.  (color  code,  if  needed)  
    • Graph  the  piece  to  get  an  overall  view  of  the  piece  (dynamic  landscape,  structural  
    landscape,  textural  landscape)  
    • Conduct  through  the  piece  and  discover  difficult  passages  
     
     
    MICRO  DETECTION  
    • Number  all  measures  
    • If  in  a  foreign  language,  write  the  translation  (literal,  word  for  word)  above  the  text  in  the  
    score.  Attach  a  poetic  translation  to  the  score,  as  well.    
    • Mark  all  articulations  that  you  want  to  add  stylistically.  Draw  attention  to  any  
    articulations  that  composer  has  marked  
    • Emphasize  the  following:  
    o Red  pencil     forte  dynamics  
    o Blue  pencil     piano  dynamics  
    o Orange  pencil     meter  changes  
    o Green  pencil     cues  
    o Purple  pencil     tempo  changes  
    o Highlighters       themes  and  material  you  wish  brought  out  
    o Dark  pencil     articulations,  etc.  
    • Analyze  the  melodic  contour  
    o Is  there  text  painting?    
    o Word  stress  

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