The Importance of Musicianship

Reading music while playing an instrument is not the same as sight reading music while singing. With regards to the instrument, it is the skill of being able to play the notes according to its quality as wellas the other elements that leads to the correct interpretayion of the composition. Sight reading/singing music is being able to vocally produce the pitch, and the intervals between a lyric line of notes. Music dictation is your ability to identify the intervals between two pitches played. Fir example to identify whether two notes played reflect a fifth, sixth, second, third. etcetera. In musicianship your ability to identify what you hear is a very useful skill. If you van accurately identify pitch and quality of notes you are a step toward the ablity to transcribe other peoples music for your own playing enjoyment.  The attached song is one that my skills in musicianship has helped me to navigate.