Klarinet Archive - Posting 000816.txt from 2001/09

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tenuto as force
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 04:32:21 -0400

I`ve read an extract in T.P.`s Study/Phrasing. This states that the
vertical dashes may mean <all> notes have equal importance within a bar - no
stress on 1st or 3rd in 4/4 for example. I would still like to discover how
some composers used these two (vertical and horizontal) symbols to come to
mean one and the same thing. I s`pose music notation was still in it`s
comparitively early stages in the 18th cent., and that some composers could
quite easily have used a drawing of a pianoforte, or even a forte piano to
indicate playing softly or piano. Standardisation only comes with greater
communication does it not? Concorde and other such high tek beasts?

T. W.

>
> Tony Pay says
> 24 September 2001 21:41
> Subject: Re: [kl] Tenuto as force
>
>
> > To get back to your question: my own opinion about 'tenuto' is that the
> > horizontal line has a variety of interpretations. In classical and
> > classically derived music, it very often has the same meaning as the
> > vertical dash in Mozart's scores.
>
> I have seen scores by Mozart with vertical dashes, but I`m ashamed to say
I
> don`t recall specifically what they mean. Could Tony P. enlighten us
please.
> Is it an instruction used only in the strings? And if as Tony says that
the
> tenuto mark, (the short horizontal line) often has the same meaning as the
> vertical dash in classical music, would he please give us an example.
These
> two different symbols must surely have caused some confusion in early
> scores.
>
> Best,
>
> Tony W.

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