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Re: meaning of "decomposez" in Jeanjean etudes

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2021-10-07 02:41

Philip Caron wrote:

> Um, er, what does "subdivide" mean? What does it convey that
> isn't already expressed by note values, time signature,
> articulation marks and so forth?

I'm not sure if your question is meant to be read at face value. But in case it is, subdivisions of the beat result if you split a note value (duration) into a smaller fractional one (1 quarter = 2 eighths, etc.). So, they *are* a function of the note values and the way they are accounted for by the time (meter) signature.

Decomposez suggests to the player that, if the note value given in the bottom number of the meter signature is too slow to count reliably, beating the next shorter value - subdividing - may allow you to beat twice as fast to maintain the tempo more easily without compressing the pulse. So, "decomposez" *is* a function of the written meter signature.

Jeanjean is just warning you that the passage marked that way should be very slow but still played with a pulse.

Karl

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