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Re: Articulation question

Author: brycon
Date: 2016-05-28 09:53

I played the fourth symphony about three or four years ago, so I can't really remember how that marking was performed (though I think when it comes at the end of a slur grouping, I slurred into the pitch and then clipped it). I'm just commenting to point out that the slur with dots is a pretty loaded marking--it may be played as a portato; legato-tongue; slurred but separated from the following pitch; and if I remember correctly, in Mozart it shows that each note gets more or less the same weight. Music--like every other sign system--is full of ambiguity, and expression and articulation markings are often used idiosyncratically (such as the hairpins in Brahms being a rhythmic stretching rather than a cresc and decresc).

At any rate, all that rambling is to say, I interpret it case by case. As Carl Schachter once told my analysis class: "Uniformity for uniformity's sake is the mark of a simple mind."

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