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I totally agree with the author of this article. How can one expect that the music on a page contains everything the composer expected? Being able to communicate and engage the audience is more than performing a correct interpretation. The old musicians understood that there were many aspects of an effective and engaging performance that could not be embodied in the score. Tempo was often expected to be more flexible. Rhythms could be bent in a manner we still hear in jazz and other types of popular music. Notes weren’t always be taken cleanly, but often approached with various kinds of slides and tonal inflections. Vibrato was an ornamental effect rather than a continuous and regular oscillation of the sound. Parts that are notated vertically together in the score, were frequently expected not to be together in performance. In keyboard playing, chords that appear to be vertically together were mostly performed with various degrees of spreading.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:39:18 +0000

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