I like music actually
written music fascinates me. I can kind of site read music but not as
I should. I went through flute-a-phone, that plastic monstrosity that
public schools used to train students in the old days. The flute a
phone itself was a reiteration of and even uglier piece of plastic.
Then of course three years of accordion but I really should've
learned to sight read. I learned enough to get by but still I should
know much more. In college however I took my ability to sight read to
another level.
I was living in the dorms
– – Chafee Hall. The hall is/was located on the east end of the
campus. My major was psychology and the psychology section of the
library was actually on the second floor of the main library. Early
on in my freshman year I learned that the music section of the
library is also on the second floor not far from the psych
section. I also learned there were photographs scattered through the
music section of the library students could use to listen to music.
Clunky square boxes with the turntable on top and the controls and
three or four headphone jacks so multiple students can listen to the
same piece of music. But I also found that year was that there were
countless scores of music shelved in the library. Soon, my research
in the library was augmented by listening to music. I spent freshman
and sophomore years listening to everything from Broadway musicals to
concerts and sympathies of the classical nature. As I indicated I
also realized the library also had scores to the music. I enjoyed
reading the musical score to say West Site Story as well as the
Fantasticks are Fiddler on the Roof. Then I got really ballsey when I
started listening to George Frideric Handel. I actually found the
scores to the organ concerts. I played a game to start reading the
music as the concert started and I would when if I ended up finishing
a piece of music and the music finished in my headphones.
So I've just recently
discovered that many of the musical greats have YouTube versions of
their music online, the video follows the music so you can actually
listen to the video and watch the score zip by the same time. I'm
currently working on Haydn's third mass or the Lord Nelson would have
loved for years. It was great fun and enjoying this new form of
technology.I haven't had a lot of time to explore the many options
open to me now. Just knowing I don't have to purchase complete scores
is quite a load off my mind not that I was going to. I actually have
a couple scores already The Lord Nelson being one of them. I don't
know I suppose that the same concept holds true on tablets and maybe
even the cell phone that I might be able to play this game of Follow
The Score,on the train, on the
bus or I might want to be – – you got a love technology.
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