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Re: mezzo staccato
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Graham Percival |
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Re: mezzo staccato |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:34:38 +0000 |
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On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:20:53AM +0000, James Lowe wrote:
> Hiapeng,
>
> >In my theory book, a mezzo staccato is a line plus staccato. But I
> >don't know whether c4-.-- does this correctly.
This works, as does
c4-_
> If the notes are tied I just used something like
>
> c4-.( c4-. c4-.)
>
> And again that seems to be understood by them.
Off the top of my head, I would play:
c4-.( c4-. c4-.)
with something like 30% of the note duration as rests. If you
wanted less space (say, 5-10%) between the notes, I suggest:
c4--( c4-- c4--)
That said, the -- case wouldn't raelly be played with rests... you
would play a note with normal bow pressure, then dramatically
reduce the bow pressure for the final part of the note. The
overall effect would be that there was a "gap" between the notes,
but the bow would keep moving and the bow would still be in
contact with the string.
However, this is not a well-defined area of music; it will depend
on the style of music, the composer, on what the conductor tells
the musicians, etc.
Cheers,
- Graham