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- Dec 16, 2006
There seems to be a trend lately (especially in ice dance), where a particular piece of music is added beats, either to make it legal (in 1998, I remember Anissina/Peizerat's Romeo and Juliet had this very obvious heartbeat that Prokofiev did not compose), or to completely make it fit into a rhythm prescribed by the ISU for the SD (Harlem Nocturne in Ralph/Hill's SD, to me, had beats added to it so it fits the rhumba).
How do you feel about the creative edits that music editors add to music, just to fit the rules in skating (whether its to.fit the time constraints or the rhythm requirements )
Personally, when skaters do this, I find that I cannot focus on the music at all. It feels like two rhythms are fighting for dominance, almost, since all music (even if the ISU does not think so) have rhythm. It is even worse, to me, when skaters place beats of a different style on top of a song that is in a different style--sometimes neither the addition nor the original piece are even in the same key signature (at a local competition, a synchro team was skating to Katy Perry's Firework, with Arabic music added on top-- a major key in 4/4, with a Hungarian minor in 3/4 on top).
I find the looping of measures (adding a repeat sign where it does not exist ) has become prevalent lately.
One offender of this was any Tosca program. The North American version (Kwan and Langlois/Archetto, both choreographed by Morozov) used the ending as the beginning and also as the ending again. The Russian version (Slutskaya and Yagudin) repeated the second to last measure so the skaters have enough time to get into a ending pose/grab their head to show madness, etc.
How do you feel about the creative edits that music editors add to music, just to fit the rules in skating (whether its to.fit the time constraints or the rhythm requirements )
Personally, when skaters do this, I find that I cannot focus on the music at all. It feels like two rhythms are fighting for dominance, almost, since all music (even if the ISU does not think so) have rhythm. It is even worse, to me, when skaters place beats of a different style on top of a song that is in a different style--sometimes neither the addition nor the original piece are even in the same key signature (at a local competition, a synchro team was skating to Katy Perry's Firework, with Arabic music added on top-- a major key in 4/4, with a Hungarian minor in 3/4 on top).
I find the looping of measures (adding a repeat sign where it does not exist ) has become prevalent lately.
One offender of this was any Tosca program. The North American version (Kwan and Langlois/Archetto, both choreographed by Morozov) used the ending as the beginning and also as the ending again. The Russian version (Slutskaya and Yagudin) repeated the second to last measure so the skaters have enough time to get into a ending pose/grab their head to show madness, etc.
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