RE: [Harp-L] Reading Music



Michael Rubin posted:
> <<I also do not think you need to read to understand and use theory.>>

Larry E. posted:
> am curious.how may this be accomplished?

I am with Mr. Rubin on this. I could "read" music at a 1st grade level for over 10 years but understood a fair amount of theory (street educated/functional type.)
Theory is used by me in conjunction with my ear (theory trained ear) to improvise and "play by ear."  It was only after deciding to learn to "read" music and actually doing it constantly in ensemble situations where it was necessary, that I would actually come to call myself a reader. I could imagine that theory for some is totally tied to amental picture of staff notation but my mental picture is of note layout on the instrument that I am playing.
Reading is a skill for many of us that is independent of playing and only a tool. Real music comes from within IMO, everything plays and sounds better after the charts are gone  if you ask me- and I love to write and have people play my arrangements! Blind people tend to make some great music.


Michael Peloquin
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