The Superfluous Sheet Music A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

What is a viola doing in the orchestra if it rarely gets a melody and it does not play the bass either? Why is a conductor needed when sometimes the orchestra gets along fine without him? What do opera directors do and would they be missed by the singers and audience if they were not there? What is the role of the score in classical music when many music cultures (folk music, jazz, Gregorian, etc.) managed and still manage without it? The Liszt Academy series for young people seeks answers to these and many other questions. Now on the third occasion of the series children will be guided through the intricacies of European sheet music by János Bali, flautist, teacher and leader of the A:N:S Chorus, which has a medieval and Renaissance repertoire. For instance, he talks about the various dots and dashes that first appeared some 1,200 years ago in Gregorian manuscripts and which over a very long time morphed into the score notation we know today. We also find out what there is in music that the score cannot tell us, how composers struggled to write down on paper their thoughts as accurately as possible, and what experiments were conducted in the 20th century to go beyond traditional sheet music notation.