Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2023-09-05 17:26
I usually assume a squiggly line means to finger the notes in between, and a straight line means smooth glissando. Is that right? I don't apply it rigidly; it can depend on the music, the composer, the editor, the conductor, etc.
Regarding fingered glissandi, sometimes I wonder which notes to finger. Do you play a chromatic scale fragment, or do you just play notes of the current scale? I've never heard it questioned, but sometimes one or the other sounds more effective - when playing alone! Probably matters less in an ensemble - or does it?
Another gliss question: some glisses start at a note and end with a rest. Then I start to wonder how far to extend the gliss: short/long, tapered/not. Again, when playing alone there's usually a way that sounds better. In an ensemble, my experience is that everyone playing the gliss ends it their own way. And maybe that's ok, the desired effect is usually a more general one. Yet the question keeps asking me. Pick, pick, pick.
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