Author: Ben
Date: 2003-10-13 22:32
Granting that Stravinsky knew what he wanted and therefore wrote very specific articulations and rhythms, I am still a little unsure about how to interpret his usage of breath marks.
Firstly, does a breath mark indicate that the music should shortly pause, or that you should breath in air, or both. And if so, how long?
Regarding the length of a pause, should it be consistent for all breath marks within a movement. If so, does one there for pause the same amount or a little more if the breath mark is written on top of a 16th/8th rest, assuming one is already pausing equal to a 16th or 8th.
Perhaps when he wrote a rest and a breath together, he wanted one to wait the rythmical value of the rest, then pause for the breath (ad lib) value.
Finally, if Stravinsky really wanted the combination of rests/breaths to be rhythmically adhered to, then why combine two markings which can both refer to rhythm? Why not just write whatever rest value he wanted without the commas?
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