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Monday, October 10, 2005

On reading music

Pauca Lux ex Oriente is continuing his series on music by offering a basic course in reading music and sight-singing. This is the meat and potatoes of one's musical education, and I'm often surprised by how many musicians and singers can't actually read music or understand basic theory. It's rather like claiming that you're a poet but that you've never bothered to learn to write because you already know how to rhyme. (If only all small children were made to take piano lessons, this sort of musical illiteracy could be avoided...)

His earlier entry on singing properly is here.

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