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Re: Playing the music

Author: Bubalooy
Date: 2007-09-05 20:02

I'm a firm believer in analysis. Of course we should observe what the composer has written and what he has not written. But if a composer writes very little in terms of say dynamics, it doesn't follow that the piece should be played with no dynamic variation. How then to decide? From the score. I don't believe that with "through composed music" the answer is to just do what feels good. Can you justify what you are doing based on what is there in the score? Also, keep in mind that unless you have the original manuscript, it is hard to know what the composer wrote. I mentioned in another thread that I have some pieces marked "urtext" but they are very very different so what did the composer write and what did an editor deicide should be written, or not written. Therefore, you need to study the piece and make decisions based on what you see in it and what you believe the music is "trying" to do.

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