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One other thing to add to your great response. REHEARSAL! Orchestras rehearse as little as they do because conductors do everything you've mentioned. But addit
by PlentyOfFish 4y ago
One other thing to add to your great response. REHEARSAL!
Orchestras rehearse as little as they do because conductors do everything you've mentioned. But additionally they facilitate a singular musical goal, and take the "democracy" out of it. Further to this is the time management. The musicians in the orchestra have enough notes to play and sound to think of, without having to consider how much rehearsal time we need/want to spend on a specific movement, how we would like to spend more time on movement 1 but actually movement 3 is notoriously tricky so we need to have time for it etc. Also, someone has to be monitoring the process to know when enough is enough, it's not always the case that more rehearsal time = better.
- BizarroLand 4y agoI know from my music days that everyone was expected to learn the piece on their own, or in small groups (for instance, on vocal pieces people would assemble to learn the group piece and then work on uniformity of tone), and then when we would go to rehearsal the point of it would be to iron out timings and building a feel for the piece as a whole. The only hotspot moments were when you were doing solo or standout work, which by necessity would mean that you would be rehearsing your sections with the whole group as, for instance, if a random tenor dropped a note that can be covered by everyone else, but if the soloist does it then it can make the whole ensemble look bad.