18 May
2005
18 May
'05
8:01 p.m.
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 13:45 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:48:34PM +0200, Jens M
Andreasen wrote:
Ah! But the up/down stroke of a violin player is very visible ...
I guess that the First Violin Player is supposed to give up some of
his/her artistic integrity in order to let their fellow musicians have a
common clue of time?
The visual principle of 'time-clueing' (sp?) is still very much alive;
we have guitarists with spastic guitar-neck movements, head-banging bass
players, drummers doing silent count-ins with crossed sticks ...
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c[] // Jens M Andreasen
There is a rule of thumb regarding when you need
a conductor, which is
about when the the band exceeds 8 people. It is not the anarchy that
naturally evolves, but the distance between the furthermost band members
causing the problem.
It's rarely done these days, but in the 19th century it was quite normal
for a symphonic orchestra to play without a conductor. That's the origin
of the title 'concert master' for the first violin player.