Author: d-oboe
Date: 2006-01-07 01:30
The amount of vibrato that is used doesn't really matter, as long as the line makes musical sense. Because a boring, or unclear, musical line won't be improved by vibrato, it will only be clouded. Kind of like putting flowers on top of sweaty gym socks!
Vibrato is a means to and end; that "end" being musical expression. One uses the vibrato as a tool to clarify, or perhaps "exactify", what one is trying to express. Vibrato can highlight important notes, and give the phrase a skeleton, a balance, a direction.
Sometimes, vibrato could even be a deterrent to musical expression. For example if one does little vibrato on the climactic point in the phrase, but then does comparatively more vibrato elsewhere, it makes the phrase seems disjunct.
That's not to say, however, that one should play no vibrato for most of the piece, and then do chainsaw vibrato at the climactic points! It's about the balance. Use *some* vibrato at the soft places, and then let loose at the climax!
That's a simplistic way of looking at it, but it should help for now!
d
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