{"id":1037,"date":"2011-10-03T06:13:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T10:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2011-10-09T00:52:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T04:52:15","slug":"hesitant-and-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2011\/10\/hesitant-and-lost.html","title":{"rendered":"Hesitant and lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frequently a pianist may hesitate before an important note of arrival in a phrase. Singers are more likely to stretch after they achieve the important note, hesitating to end it. (It&#8217;s normal for singers to emphasize sustained vowels. Consonants can usually be prolonged only a limited amount &#8212; even in Italian!)<\/p>\n<p>In scripted piano music, waiting just before important notes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/hesitation_waltz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1044\" style=\"margin: 14px 6px 18px 17px;\" title=\"hesitation_waltz\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/hesitation_waltz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>(especially if they are harmonically expressive) is tied in with knowing what&#8217;s coming next. It may be that the better we know the music, the more likely we are to withhold the arrival of an important note.<\/p>\n<p>This hesitance to deliver the most savory note is a sign of the deadness of the text. If we were more uncertain, we&#8217;d shape our rhythmic nuances differently. Telling the listener something is about to happen, further removes the musical experience into simulation.  <\/p>\n<p>If we want performances of scripted music that convey spontaneity &#8212; convey reality! &#8212; then we need to attend to these deadening habits.<\/p>\n<p>The performance intensity communicated in routinely rushing the quickest notes in a phrase may also equal apology. The emoting tempramental performer seems to say: &#8220;You all know this canon so well, let me not detain you&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frequently a pianist may hesitate before an important note of arrival in a phrase. Singers are more likely to stretch after they achieve the important note, hesitating to end it. (It&#8217;s normal for singers to emphasize sustained vowels. Consonants can usually be prolonged only a limited amount &#8212; even in Italian!) In scripted piano music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[241,242,244,641,640,638,130,380,639],"class_list":{"0":"post-1037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-canon","9":"tag-canonic-repertoire","10":"tag-canonic-repertory","11":"tag-classical-music","12":"tag-consonants","13":"tag-hesitation","14":"tag-rubato","15":"tag-singing","16":"tag-vowels","17":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}