Klarinet Archive - Posting 000185.txt from 2010/08

From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cantabile
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:35:33 -0400

"Ad Libitum" or the English equivalent "Freely" might be a start.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]

...

The question was motivated by a quite practical concern -- I was (am:-)
working on a composition, and thinking about a term to emphasize to the
players that they needed to approach the notes in terms of a creative,
almost classical approach to phrasing, instead of the very literal "play
exactly what's written" interpretation of notation that's typical of
much 20th/21st century music. I was interested in writing something
that had quite a sparse amount of dynamic and other explicit expressive
indicators, but that left a lot of space for how the performer might
choose to indicate or shape phrases.

"Cantabile" seemed at first glance a natural choice -- that and
"espressivo" seem to be two typical words in modern notation to indicate
to the player "interpret this passage creatively/expressively rather
than literally" or even "interpret this passage as if it was
pre-20th-century music".

But on second thoughts, I'm not sure that what I want can be captured in
a simple instruction in this way ...

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