Author: mschmidt
Date: 2007-07-03 20:51
My first instinct was either interpret it as "short but with a feeling of length," or maybe "long yet separated." But then I checked out the Wikipedia entry for tenuto and I saw this:
"Tenuto can mean either hold the note in question its full length (or longer, with slight rubato) or else play the note slightly louder. In other words, the tenuto mark is sometimes interpreted as an articulation mark and sometimes interpreted as a dynamic mark. When it appears in conjunction with an accent mark, it is of course taken as an indication of articulation, and, conversely, when it appears in conjunction with a staccato mark, it is taken as an indication of a slight dynamic accent. When it appears by itself, its meaning must be determined by its musical context."
(Emphasis mine).
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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