[Menvi-discuss] Sight-reading

[Rick Coates]

A recent article I read on sightreading noted that many band directors pull
out sightreading materials only before contest periods.  Its important that
sightreading be reinforced as often as possible.  I started a sightreading
assessment program in my band classes.  Students are required to read aloud
or silently an exercise of 4 measures and then perform it.  For many of my
students, the challenge has them only able to read one measure at a time,
but the goal is to expand those skills to 4 or more.

In a brief discussion with some people that oversee the state band
competitions in my state, the only accommodations they provided were large
print, and braille music was not offered.  From the discussions I have read
here, it is interesting how much our society is still not willing to
provide or understand the capabilities of blind or visually impaired
musicians.  Rick

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Dewald van Deventer <
dewaldvandeventer at gmail.com> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* SClark6144 at aol.com
> *To:* menvi-discuss at menvi.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:16 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Menvi-discuss] Sight-reading
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> Here in Texas a few years ago, I had a braille music violin student.  He
> got the music before the other students and memorized it.   Then during the
> sight-reading section at UIL competitions, he would play with the rest of
> the orchestra.  At first, in 6th grade, it was only 2 hours early, and then
> we kept getting more time in the years that followed as the music got more
> difficult.  He would get it a day or two ahead to learn it.
>
> Everyone thought he couldn't do the sight reading because he didn't have
> sight, but I ranted and raved until they made the modification.  I figured
> if he felt like he couldn't do it by contest time, he would exclude
> himself.  It was not their place to exclude him.
>
> Syl
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