[TPIN] Mendelssohn 5 articulation

[David Bolton]

Simon,

I find it helpful to view these kinds of articulations from a string 
player's perspective. Talk to a string player about lour'e (dashes under 
or over each notehead, with slurs to designate *bowing* ), and slurred 
staccato.

Loure (pronounced "lur - ay") is "accomplished by slightly separating 
the notes while the bow is being drawn across the string." A slurred 
staccato is "very much like loure--on one bow--except that the notes are 
shorter and, therefore, the space between them is longer."

Now, you get to interpret that using the trumpet.

David Bolton

P.S. quotes taken from Samuel Adler, The Study of Orchestration, pp. 24-25.