Klarinet Archive - Posting 000359.txt from 2003/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Notation - 'swell' vs accent
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:10:21 -0500

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:12:40 -0800 (PST), ormondtoby@-----.net said:

> I was reading folk music in 4/4, somewhere between andante and adagio, with
> no markings except slurs.   The music sounded most pleasing (to me) if I
> started certain notes quietly, allowed them to 'swell' in loudness, and
> finally let them decay.   But I began to wonder "Is this what the composer
> or publisher meant?"   Then I began to wonder, "If he had wanted to be
> explicit, how would've he marked this?"

The music you're talking about is most probably best played without very
many such effects. Folk music is played on an instrument as it would be
sung; and moreover, as it would be sung if there were words to it.

Sometimes such an effect might be appropriate, though, and then a hairpin up
and down would be the correct, and normal, way of marking it explicitly. But
you would very rarely see it marked explicitly in such music, because it
would very rarely be 'expected'.

You might consider that your page looking too 'cluttered' if you write in
your markings probably has its aural counterpart in your performance sounding
too 'cluttered' when you play it like that.

Tony
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