Originally Posted By: eddie1261
I am talking about a situation where I walk into a rehearsal with a chart for (and again I keep going back to probably my favorite song of all time) MacArthur Park. That is a symphony played in a rock vein. MOST, I won't say "no", but MOST, hobby level players are not going to decode those dischordant horn stabs that are all over the intro and the interludes. The 3rd movement is an extremely intricate set of lines played by the different brass and woodwind players that really have nothing to do with each other. (That movement in symphony is typically called the scherzo, which is a total departure from the rest of the piece, often in a different time setting). The modality of that song would make it extremely difficult for a non reader to play it mainly because there is too much to memorize, particularly because the notes played by the trombone are far from a harmony apart with the trumpet, and you just can't wing it with that song. That kind of song HAS to be read. It really HAS to be. I bought the chart online and even with reading experience my first impression was "What the ****!" It took me a lot of hours of voicing chords to a way a piano can play them rather than an orchestra. And that song just falls apart if it is not performed by an orchestra. Sometimes it comes down to the difference between hearing and listening, and they are two different things. I am sure you have all heard that song many times. Have you ever LISTENED to it?



I don't hear any horn stabs at all!!! No trombone. No trumpet. Is the steel charted?

MACARTHUR PARK


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