Timeline for How should I notate an intermediate dynamic between mp and mf?
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| Aug 26, 2019 at 14:39 | comment | added | Duston | What about something like "mp poco cresc. mf" ? | |
| Aug 25, 2019 at 15:11 | comment | added | aparente001 | To indicate silence, you can use a break (looks like a big apostrophe) or a very small rest. Probably the break (large apostrophe) is the easiest thing. If you have the space for it, you could also use words, e.g. fading to nothing but a decrescendo to ppp followed by a break would do the trick, in my opinion. | |
| Aug 25, 2019 at 2:41 | comment | added | Walter | “"niente" […] is normally preceded or followed by a rest, not used in the middle of a pair of hairpins.” I wanted to mark clearly that the players should end the first swell with silence before the next cresc., and the second swell should end very quietly, but not quite as silently as the first. How would you notate that? | |
| Aug 25, 2019 at 1:01 | comment | added | guest | "I don’t want it to be all that “quiet”." Don't worry about that. Playing very soft is harder than playing very loud! | |
| Aug 25, 2019 at 1:00 | comment | added | guest | There is no reason not to use a wider range than pp to ff if you want. fff and ppp are common enough, and Tchaikowsky once wrote pppppp. "niente" really means "inaudible" and is normally preceded or followed by a rest, not used in the middle of a pair of hairpins. | |
| Aug 25, 2019 at 0:54 | history | edited | guest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 25, 2019 at 0:50 | comment | added | Walter | Also, this segment is part of the intro, which builds up to the “main theme” that’s played entirely in f – with later climactic swells of ff and fff – which is why I wouldn’t want to make the last visible dynamic in that intro any louder than mf. | |
| Aug 25, 2019 at 0:48 | comment | added | Walter | The posted excerpt actually excludes (for space) a preceding swell, which itself goes from niente to p back down to the visible niente at the start of the excerpt. So would you suggest changing that original p to pp? My fear then would be that it might be played too quietly, since it’s meant to be, maybe not loud, but reasonably present, if that makes any sense – I don’t want it to be all that “quiet”. | |
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| Aug 25, 2019 at 0:42 | history | answered | guest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |