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pies

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simple question

on: December 31, 2006, 02:32:28 AM

what is the proper term for a horizontal accent (the ">" above single notes)?

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pianistimo

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Re: simple question

Reply #1 on: December 31, 2006, 03:15:27 AM

duh. accent? or is this a trick question?

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Re: simple question

Reply #2 on: December 31, 2006, 03:27:16 AM

isn't there a italian/french/foreign term for it?

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Reply #3 on: December 31, 2006, 04:46:25 AM

marcato? coll arco? i don't know. i think that in italian they have all kinds of terms - but the type of accent you play widely varies with the time period and the composer.

i used to think those sfz's in beethoven were crashing. so everytime i came to one - pow. now, i realize (after listening to a lot of choral music) that you use them incontext. i mean if you are in a passage that is mp and you have sfz suddenly come up - it is within the context of what is before and after. makes it much more refined.

now with coll arco - you have a bowing of the violin vs staccato or marcato.

marcato can be the straight line - right? so you can play a little less staccato - or you can play coll arco - which is giving more emphasis to the 'line.' so it's more intensified rather than lightly staccato.

as i see it - these symbols are relatively stale without a context.

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