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Re: practicing trills

Author: Bobo
Date: 2007-11-27 15:29

Here's a good overview of baroque ornamentation concepts from IDRS that references the book Drew cites. There is clearly continuing scholarly controversy on proper baroque trilling techniques. Here's my approach: listen to how great players (Holliger, Daniel, Klein, Mayer, etc.) handle the trills on their recordings...decide what sounds best and is technically feasible for you. For the most part, I find that the great players handle the trills the same way...in the cases where they choose not to start from the top (and even occasionally mix it up somewhat inexplicably) try to figure out what is more appealing musically or if there is a reason such as an approach from the bottom or that going to the upper note is musically awkward. What I love the most about baroque music (slightly OT here) is the scope for improvisation that it allows..I guess cadenzas replaced that in later classical music. I just bought the Musica Rara edition of the Marcello D Minor - it has Bach's ornamentation in a superstaff as an option which is pretty cool and you can use what you wish of it.

http://idrs.colorado.edu/publications/journal/jnl16/JNL16.Nagel.Baroque.html

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