Timeline for Performance directions for a vocal technique
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| Feb 5 at 14:02 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | ... the more we get something awkward and different. Sometimes it's best to just give some explanatory notes, point the performer toward an inspiration, and then wash one's hands, sit back, and accept the fact that anyone can make whatever they want of your work. | |
| Feb 5 at 14:00 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | @BrianTHOMAS Building on some of the ideas here: As someone who's sometimes tried to "cover" a very stylistic singer as an instrumental line, sometimes the result just sounds goofy. Sometimes the solution is just to lean in to the notion that you've "arranged" the song, and let the instrument speak as it does most naturally. Another philosophical point is about the balance between composer's (/arranger's) agency and performer's. Sometimes there are diminishing returns as we attempt to dictate the finer points of style; the more we try to spell it out, the more... | |
| Feb 5 at 13:50 | comment | added | phoog | @BrianTHOMAS a trombonist is going to be even more likely than a singer to interpret a slur as an articulation mark rather than a portamento. I'd be inclined to use a line in the staff for portamento of a second or more (I might attempt to indicate the rate of portamento with curvature, but that might be confusing) along with the word portamento. | |
| Feb 5 at 13:45 | comment | added | phoog | "but be warned, a slur between more than two notes will be read as legato or phrasing": this can also happen even if there are only two notes. Such a slur could also be read as specifying text underlay (if it happens to coincide with the text underlay), which is traditionally the primary purpose of slurs in vocal music. A common error of interpretation in vocal and choral music is to misinterpret text underlay slurs as phrasing marks. | |
| Feb 5 at 13:21 | vote | accept | Brian THOMAS | ||
| Feb 5 at 13:21 | comment | added | Brian THOMAS | Thank you for your thoughtful answer. The performer is going to be a trombonist - I think they'll cope better with the portamento. | |
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| S Feb 5 at 11:47 | history | answered | Emily Cardwell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |