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Re: Trills...

Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2007-05-01 15:43

A thought:

Many of the contributors to this thread report having a "rule" about how to execute a trill.

It might be worth customizing those rules to each individual trill encountered.

I've just gone over all the trills in the Mozart Concerto 2nd movement with my teacher, and we conclude that starting on the written note or playing the appoggiatura "works". Complexities in acceleration, duration of on/off the base note, termination flourishes, all need to be explored in the context of the performance.

For my part, the subtleties implied by the harmonic progression are a new and shocking dimension of the music. I'm playing too much alone in my practice room and not enough in ensembles!

Bob Phillips

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