Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2021-10-08 06:49
seabreeze wrote:
> I've always thought of "decomposez" as a directive that the
> music is not to be played in cut time. So 3/4 gets 3 full
> beats, not 1, 6/8 gets 6 full beats, not 2, 12/8 gets 12 full
> beats, not 4, and so on
It's certainly context dependent. And to a great extent, your reading is the same as mine - meant to keep a slow major beat (e.g. dotted quarter in 6/8 meter) from speeding up by pulsing the subdivisions - the eighth notes. Jeanjean's 16 Modern Etudes uses "decomposez" somewhere in almost every study. In many cases it applies to the opening tempo (e.g. #3), counting 9/8 at Andante espressivo as eighth notes, not dotted quarters, which would be too slow for most of us to count reliably. In the florid final section of #7, Jeanjean is more explicit -12/4 a 4 temps decomposez (count the quarters, not the dotted halves; 15/4 a 5 temps decomposez, etc... He means to divide the broader, slow meter, by pulsing the faster subdivisions to keep the tempo (the beat frequency) measured and controlled.
Karl
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