{"id":1872,"date":"2016-09-13T00:05:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T04:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2016-09-13T00:05:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T04:05:02","slug":"creating-performance-scores-sarah-rodeo-16-and-lecturer-drew-minter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/2016\/09\/13\/creating-performance-scores-sarah-rodeo-16-and-lecturer-drew-minter\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Performance Scores – Sarah Rodeo’ 16 and Lecturer Drew Minter"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Ford Scholar project consisted of my\u00a0taking scholarly editions of music from the Middle Ages up through the late Renaissance and using the music notation software Sibelius to turn them into performance scores that could be used by ensembles.<\/span><\/p>\n

In completing\u00a0this project, I gained\u00a0exposure to an incredible amount of early repertoire to which I would not have otherwise been exposed. In addition to giving me music with which to work,\u00a0my\u00a0Ford Scholar mentor, lecturer Drew Minter, encouraged me to\u00a0spend\u00a0time\u00a0browsing the parts of the\u00a0Music Library where all the reserve, anthology editions\u00a0of early music are kept. Drew pointed out to me that before the Internet made music-browsing incredibly simple from one’s desk,\u00a0the way that generations upon generations of\u00a0people discovered\u00a0and became familiar\u00a0with\u00a0musical literature was by searching through libraries. I learned that being able to quickly and easily navigate a music library is itself a skill that I would like to cultivate.<\/span><\/p>\n

In\u00a0completing this project, I\u00a0learned the countless aspects of a piece of music\u00a0that make the score\u00a0easily readable and accessible for a musician\u00a0– facets that I had never considered before. These qualities include but are not limited to\u00a0spacing, alignment, and size of: lyrics, note-heads, note stems, bar lines, staves, systems (sets of staves), clefs, time signatures and key signatures. As someone who struggles with visual processing issues, being able to create\u00a0visually clear scores was extremely satisfying for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I had the experience of translating a great deal of Latin, in addition to Spanish. I decided that the clearest way to insert these translations into the scores was to\u00a0put them right next to the original Latin or Spanish lyrics, a feature that most performance scores do not have.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was also tasked with creating clear keyboard reductions of all the vocal parts. My experience in playing keyboards gave me many good ideas on how to make those keyboard parts as neat and clear as\u00a0possible.<\/p>\n

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I am pleased that\u00a0I was able to acquire\u00a0solid proficiency with Sibelius this summer. I realized that this\u00a0is a skill set that I will absolutely need at some point, since I would like\u00a0to pursue a career that focuses on sacred music, and therefore much early music.\u00a0I look forward to incorporating score creation into my career trajectory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Ford Scholar project consisted of my\u00a0taking scholarly editions of music from the Middle Ages up through the late Renaissance and using the music notation software Sibelius to turn them into performance scores that could be used by ensembles. In completing\u00a0this project, I gained\u00a0exposure to an incredible amount of early repertoire to which I would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}