[TPIN] Mendelssohn 5 articulation

[Glenn Bengry]

Simon,

     After looking at the part I would connect but articulate each note(like 
a phrase marking), sort of like bell tones.  Maybe not a huge accent but a 
difinite bell strike even at pp.  I played this a while back and remember 
that it sounded completely appropriate.  The second player at the time was a 
Juiliard grad and he was right with me.  It sounded good.  I may even have a 
recording of the performance.


Glenn


>From: Simon Richards <s.richards at physics.org>
>To: "Glenn Bengry" <soundpretty at hotmail.com>
>CC: tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
>Subject: Re: [TPIN] Mendelssohn 5 articulation
>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:58:43 +0100
>
>On Thursday 08 June 2006 17:21, Glenn Bengry wrote:
> > Simon,
> >
> >      The slur markings, I believe, are not actually slurs but phrase
> > markings.  Articulate them, but don't break the phrase.  Is that the 
>part
> > where you are playing the theme hymn?  If so, don't apologize for the
> > articulations there.  You are it. I would tongue them  for sure.  The 
>hymn
> > theme is sort of the climax of the whole piece.
>
>I wondered whether they might be phrase marks (as a scientist I hate that
>slur/phrase ambiguity in musical notation) but since there aren't any other
>phrase markings in the part I interpreted them (and still do) as slurs.
>
>For clarification it is not the main statement of the chorale. It is the
>passage very near the end of the last movement, from the 11th measure of 
>"L"
>to the 8th of "M" in this edition (Kalmus). I don't have a scanner to 
>provide
>an extract, so I have put up a renotated version, which is close enough to
>the original, here:
>
>http://freespace.virgin.net/sd.richards/ex1.gif
>
>Regards,
>Simon
>
>--
>Dr. Simon Richards
>http://freespace.virgin.net/sd.richards

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