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Re: Trills...

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2007-05-01 20:29

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Many of the contributors to this thread report having a "rule" about how to execute a trill.

It might be worth customizing those rules to each individual trill encountered.

Precisely. I've played trills with the apagiotorra (excuse the spelling . . . pretty much theoryless background and too tired to search and correct), but mostly in the circumstances where the trill is approached from a note above it and resolves down (mozart 2nd movement has an example). If the note is approached from below and resolves up, I would start right on the note and trill up cause I feel that would keep that continuous 'upward' motion. And the mood of the piece I take into account when trilling. I wouldn't take a relaxing, slow piece like the second of mozart and trill as quickly as possible. I'd keep it a little slower, maybe speed up a bit, but still not trill furiously. I'd make it sound more like 32nd notes at it's fastest. But maybe at the end of the Weber Concertino I might do a much faster trill as the mood is more aggressive.

Play around and make it sound good and fit the context of the piece. Whatever your interpration of 'sounding good and fitting the context' might be.

Alexi

US Army Japan Band

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