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.

[erard]

I wonder how they would react to bringing a clear sheet in to the exam, putting it over the music and writing on that? As a harpist I am always writing pedal markings in to music. In orchestral sightreading I have been found counting my 23 bars rest with pencil in hand while scribbling pedals in for the next entry but one... Also marking which hand should play which notes because the stems are so often put going the wrong way. If a piece of quick study music has been carefully edited by a harpist I would probably work at it 'at the instrument', but if it is the product of any non-harpist I would almost certainly find 5 minutes with a pencil more use.

[jessy]

In orchestral sightreading I have been found counting my 23 bars rest with pencil in hand while scribbling pedals in for the next entry but one...

23 bars rest is a luxury violins often do not have! Please don't think I'm implying harpists have it easy though. far from it.

I had to do some orchestral sightreading last week...without a pencil. 16 pages with hardly a bar's rest of a piece I didn't know. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

As far as I'm aware, you'd never expect to mark any kind of sight-reading/quick study for exam or audition purposes.

[RoseRodent]

23 bars rest is a luxury violins often do not have!

Try the viola section! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) When the violins are resting and cellos are playing, we play with the cellos. When cellos are resting and the violins are playing, we play along with the violins. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)