trumpettrax

Ed,

When preparing to play a certain piece of music, do you have to do any research to know "how" to play that music? You may not have to do it now, but did you have to learn that at Julliard? An example might be this: you are going to play a piece by Vivaldi. Do you research Vivaldi and learn how he intended his music to be played and then research that particular era to determine style etc.? I really don't know if I'm asking this correctly or not, but I hope you get the gist of it. I'm probably never going to school to be a performance major, but thought that if there are things I can or should do to research and study on my own I would like to do that. Any suggestions would be helpful. I've never been a big reader, but really just started and I'm really enjoying it.

Thanks for your time,


Trax