Klarinet Archive - Posting 000543.txt from 2000/09

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] being expressive in Italian
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 20:24:59 -0400

> I do understand the comment that some passages are intended to be
> more espressivo than others. But I can't help it, I still want to
> retort: "Why didn't you just mark your music 'beautiful' and be done
> with it"?

Probably for the same reason that we say "allegro" when we mean fast, or
"adagio" for slow.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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