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Suddenly realized I wasn't loud enough.
what if you crescendo exactly where there is a marked crescendo?
Sometimes composers don't write things which they feel are "obvious", which may lead to ambiguous results (does he want the dynamic to stay level, or is he expecting you to do the "crescendo"?), so I would probably do a crescendo when I feel like it (definitely for Bach)
I always know what the score says. Some things has to interpreted though... Like, accents aren't always accents, staccato dots aren't always staccato... They only had a few ways to write what they wanted, so we have to think why they wrote the things they wrote.It's important to know what they wrote, but not everything works.But I tend to do what's in the score; I still think Beethoven is a bigger genius than me, soo...