The Importance of Musicianship

There various kinds of elements in musicianship: Reading music while playing an instrument is one important skill. It is the ability to read and play the notes according to their quality, while representing tempo, dynamics and other elements that will lead you to the correct interpretation of the composition. Another equally important element is sight reading/singing music. Sight reading is ability to vocally produce the pitch, and the intervals between a lyric line of notes while reading from a score. In adition one must be able to identify the intervals between two pitches played. For example to identify whether two notes played reflect a fifth, sixth, second, third. etcetera. Such is requured to be effective in recording the right pitches as they are fed to you by someone playing varying pitch intervals on a piano. Being able to recognize intervals as they ar played is a very useful asset for sight reading. Furthermore, If you can accurately identify pitch intervals and note quality it will enhance your ablity to transcribe other peoples music for your own playing enjoyment.