What got me
interested in this was the opportunity to work with a professor outside of the
classroom. I also got really excited about the daily work that I hoped I would
be doing. In high school I transcribed some string quartets in my music theory
classes and I really loved how I learned from transcribing. I got excited when
I saw that this position was to edit and transcribe music. I love music theory
and classical music but because I’m a music tech major I don’t have to take as
many music theory classes as everyone else. To me this was a way to keep in
touch with that side of music without taking classes for it.
I currently
don’t see this experience directly helping my long term goals. I see this
experience as something that can open up a career avenue post college. I am
looking forward to adding the experience to my resume. I think it looks very
good and can really help differentiate myself from other job applications.
On a weekly
basis I am transcribing music from my phone or computer into Sibelius. Sibelius
is the music notation software that the Ritter team is using. I would get
through a certain amount of pages of music per day. The amount of pages depends
on the size of each page and how legible the pages are. The challenges are not
just putting in notes but paying attention to every bit of detail that’s on the
manuscript. Translating what Peter wanted the music to sound like into my own
edited edition. Later in the project the team began to work on posters. We
divided up the work and each made a section of the poster for the presentation
August 4th.
Something that I
discovered is how music changes and differs from the hands of a composer to an
editor. An editor makes decisions that effects how a piece is performed.
Hearing a piece that I edited is a very interesting experience because I
imagine it sounded better when Peter’s musicians played it.
