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Author: smk
Date: 2016-04-17 08:45
Does anyone know what is meant by the dots that Stark or his editors put over some notes?
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Author: kdk
Date: 2016-04-17 17:19
I don't have a copy of Op. 55 to look at. But I do own the International edition of his 24 Studies in All Tonalities (no Opus number, but I assume they're not the same etudes), and the dots above the notes are just standard staccato marks. Is there something different about the ones you're asking about? Can you attach a scan?
Karl
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Author: Ron
Date: 2016-07-14 01:28
The Stark Virtuosity Studies that I own are Opus 51. This set of studies contains the dots over notes to which you refer. I believe that the dots in these studies are played the same way that dots are used in the Baermann method. To the best of my knowledge, the dots indicate that you articulate the note with your tongue albeit lightly when they are in a slur. It may seem confusing when a slurred group of notes has a dot over the first note which you are going to articulate with your tongue anyway. Also, there can be a dot over the last note of a group of slurred notes. That can be interpreted as cutting the note off with your tongue or simply articulating that note lightly with your tongue. Don't dwell on the use of the dot's too much. Just articulate notes with dot's with your tongue in a way that works with the music at hand. You may want to look at the Baermann method to see how dots are used there as well. You will see some similarities to the way dots are used by both composers.
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