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Re: Playing the music

Author: skygardener
Date: 2007-09-05 05:22

Ski- I suppose this is a bit of a vague question in a way. I have learned these pieces for a few years so this is not a "new thought" that just popped into my head.
Let's just refer to Debussy for the time being-
I always look at the score (any score) for instruction of what I should do, can do, might be able to do and for what I should not do. I gather the evidence and the lack of "Ritardando" written in one composer's work is very different than another's. For me, this is not only dependent on the time the piece was written and the composer in question, but to what the composer wrote in that piece proper. And I will now state the problem in Debussy, as an example.
Debussy, throughout the piece, wrote many tempo indications. He clearly thought about the tempo and wrote instructions as to speeding up and slowing down. Therefore, it seems obvious to me that the places he did not write any tempo change would mean that the tempo should not change- at the very least, not drastically.
Is there something I am not seeing?

Post Edited (2007-09-05 05:58)

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