Bands of America
External Memorandum
| TO: | | Bands of America Fall Participating Directors |
| FROM: | | Gary Markham, Chief Judge |
| DATE: | | August 7, 2000 |
| RE: | | Fall 2000 Rulebook Changes |
The Bands of America General Effect Music and General Effect Visual judging sheets have been
revised to serve as a better tool for evaluation. It is important to realize that the
philosophical approach to each of these captions has not changed, but the design has been
changed to focus each of the sheets on their original intent. The Bands of America Advisory
Committee met to discuss and revise the sheets at the Summer Symposium. This committee with
input from other directors proposed the changes. It was felt that the Music GE sheet in
particular contained phrases that were not directly music specific. Therefore, more appropriate
phrasing was developed. There are now two subcaptions of 100 points. On both GE sheets
coordination has been incorporated into the Effectiveness of Repertoire subcaption. Phrases
have been slightly changed to focus the Music General Effect sheet more on the music and the
Visual General Effect sheet more on the visual. Although this has always been the intent of
the sheets, the phrases seemed a bit ambiguous and confusing. We hope that these changes will
serve as a better tool for judges and instructors for communication and evaluation.
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