Quick study - no writing? Options

[RoseRodent]

I've heard contradictory reports about the Quick Study. The exam regulations do not say you cannot mark the Quick Study paper, but then I am pretty sure the graded exam regulations don't say so either, but it definitely says it on the sight-reading when you get there. I find that really odd, if I am going to prepare a piece for a short notice performance then the most important thing I am going to do with it is write stuff on it. I'll write technical elements such as position changes and sub-divisions of beats in tricky rhythms but also musical elements, reminders of phrasing, places where I might rit, editorial dynamics if required. It would seem very bizarre to test this skill without letting you do something that surely every musician would do. If you really are not allowed to mark the copy then it favours the person with the quick memory rather than the person who is most able to deliver a musical performance. Are you really required to do this without a pencil? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) I estimate I'd do more than 3 times as well if allowed to make marks on the paper.

[carol*piano]

It would seem very bizarre to test this skill without letting you do something that surely every musician would do.

Disclaimer - I know nothing about diplomas, but as someone who sightreads an awful lot for my job, I never write on music I'm about to sightread and I really can't think why I would want to .

[barry-clari]

It would seem very bizarre to test this skill without letting you do something that surely every musician would do.

Disclaimer - I know nothing about diplomas, but as someone who sightreads an awful lot for my job, I never write on music I'm about to sightread and I really can't think why I would want to .

Another disclaimer - I've done a diploma, but ATCL doesn't involve sightreading.

I've found over the years that there are many, many occasions where you don't get any choice : here's the music, play it now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

[carol*piano]

It would seem very bizarre to test this skill without letting you do something that surely every musician would do.

Disclaimer - I know nothing about diplomas, but as someone who sightreads an awful lot for my job, I never write on music I'm about to sightread and I really can't think why I would want to .

Another disclaimer - I've done a diploma, but ATCL doesn't involve sightreading.

I've found over the years that there are many, many occasions where you don't get any choice : here's the music, play it now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Okay - wrong terminology - sorry, but my point still stands. Even if I was doing a quick study, I would still not feel the need to write on the music.

[RoseRodent]

They are two different skills though. Genuine sight reading is (roughly speaking!) about producing what you can see and trying to keep up with the orchestra while you do so and ideally putting in the right notes and dynamics and articulation as you go past, quick study is how musically can you perform this in 5 minutes. 5 minutes is an awful lot of preparation time to expect the same sort of outcome you'd get with a 30 second lead-in time or if you turned over the page in orchestra and there it was looking at you in 6 flats in 7th position. If someone gives me preparation time then the way I personally would spend my preparation time is around 30% marking the score so my brain knows what to do then 70% making my hands do it. In my way of doing things that is the first stage of preparation and it's as weird as giving 5 minutes of preparation time during which you are not allowed to use the instrument.

Ideally I would start my diploma with the quick study and ask if I already failed (since you can't have it at all if you fail the quick study) and if I have failed then just leave. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[carol*piano]

They are two different skills though.

Indeed they are. I was just making the point that I've never felt the need to write on the music in either scenario, so it's clearly not something that "every musician would do".