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slurs and pharses

Author: Melissa
Date: 2003-09-06 23:20

How do you know when you are supposed to slur or when a composer is showing a pharse?

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Re: slurs and pharses

Author: R13A
Date: 2003-09-06 23:59

HI

First, I assume you mean PHRASE and not the pseudo phonetic sounding of Farse. [rotate]

In the March 2003 edition of THE CLARINET, there is a brief article by Larry Guy , THE PERFORMANCE LEGACY OF DANIEL BONADE.

Within the 5 pg. article, phrasing is discussed relative to cewrtain ROSE studies and select Orchestral Excerpts.

Additionally, slurs and legato is also mentioned.

Try and obtain a copy of the aforementioned issue
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Leblanc publishes the CLARINET COMPENDIUM, also authored by BONADE.
Within, is a 3 pg. article on Phrasing..
This booklet can be ordered through your local music store or directly through Leblanc.

regards
d

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Re: slurs and pharses

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-09-07 02:31

In my opinion, you should be able to hear a phrase. Not any set amount of time, sometimes two measures, sometimes four, just try to feel it. I guess a phrase would be where there's a sense of beginning and ending. If we take mozart's concerto, mvt 1 when the clarinet comes in, I'd consider the first eight bars as a phrase. Seems like all of those bars belong together and begin and end one common thought. Then go on from there. Each music has it's phrases (except, in my opinoin, contemporary music. Which I consider to be an artist's clarinet impression of a creaking door being swung open and closed at various speeds).

Alexi

US Army Japan Band

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Re: slurs and pharses

Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2003-09-07 16:36

Melissa,

While someone out there can probably point to exceptions, I think you are usually safe if you interpret a solid curved line as a slur. A dashed straight line that brackets a series of notes commonly indicates a phrase. A dashed curved line could be a phrase but it may also be an editor's suggested articulation, particularly with older music, e.g. from the classical period, when composers often did not write in articulation, depending instead on traditional performance practices to inform the player or, perhaps, leaving the decision to the performer.

Best regards,
jnk

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Re: slurs and pharses

Author: diz
Date: 2003-09-07 22:24

I think you'll find that the dashed "slur" is most likely an editor's (but not always) suggestion of a phrase (or slur) - at least according to my book on Music Notation.

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