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Author: brycon
Date: 2024-06-27 08:03
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He seems to be going farther than "not be necessarily taken as gospel." He's saying (whether or not he meant it) that editorial additions (not original from the composer) are invalid and are to be ignored (white-out everything on the page).
My main teacher was a Russianoff student. He would sometimes say: "A good musician could make the music happen without any of the expressive markings. A bad musician still couldn't make the music happen even with all the expressive markings." (I vaguely remember this formulation being a Russianoff-ism but could very well be misremembering.) That is, students learn that forte means x, tenuto means y, accent means z, etc. And the piece of music, then, becomes a series of "moves" you have to execute and whoever executes them the most accurately wins high school or conservatory or whatever. But, of course, these expressive markings can mean different things.
One of my favorite examples is in Debussy's rhapsody. After the introduction, the long melody that comes back several times throughout the piece begins on a C half-note tied to an eighth, above which Debussy places a tenuto line. When I ask a student "What's up with the tenuto?" He or she will usually say, "Oh, I need to play that note long." But it's already two and a half beats at a slow tempo: it doesn't really make sense to have a tenuto. Underneath the C, however, is a Db major harmony in the piano. The C to Bb in the clarinet, then, is a 6-5 appogiatura, and the tenuto could be an indication to "press" the C and subsequently to relax on the Bb. (Alas, many players miss this beautiful detail because they're too wrapped up in the piano dynamic.)
At any rate, maybe Russianoff's use of white out is more about pushing students to get their heads out of their music stands, to stop worrying about executing what's on the page, and to begin using their ears and minds to play the music.
Post Edited (2024-06-27 08:05)
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