Author: d-oboe
Date: 2006-11-17 18:49
"The lesson learned is making sure on "O come O Come Emmanuel" would be to emphasize the pickups, make sure your beat threes lead to beat ones (it's in 3/4 time, right? I can't remember.)"
Although, keep in mind, that the music still has to conform to the meter. It is a chorale type tune in 4/4 (or a similar variant - 2/2) - so it has to sound like it is in 4/4, with the downbeats in the right places. If you emphasize the pickups, then it sounds like the downbeat is on beat 4...which it isn't.
The first phrase would probably go something like this: (if it's in 4/4 with one note per beat)
crescendo for 2 bars, peak on the downbeat of bar 3, dim to the last note of the phrase.
you could refine this further by "acknowledging" the first entrance to create a clear sense of meter - then you would just barely, barely dim until the downbeat of bar 2 and continue the crescendo from there.
The point in any phrasing is to create a discourse - a speech. In order for phrasings to make sense, they simply must convey a sense of meter - otherwise they are unintelligible.
D
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