{"id":363,"date":"2009-08-11T06:31:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T06:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/2009\/08\/art_is_long\/"},"modified":"2020-07-19T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T21:23:27","slug":"art_is_long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2009\/08\/art_is_long.html","title":{"rendered":"Art is long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long notes are more important than short notes. Pianists often get confused. Because we don&#8217;t hold out long-duration tones with bow or breath, it&#8217;s easy to underestimate their significance.<\/p>\n<p>Virtuoso pianists spend so much time attending to what&#8217;s difficult in virtuoso pieces that it can seem these difficulties &#8212; often passages of short, quick notes &#8212; really are the most important thing in a piece of music. Frequently, it&#8217;s the other way around. Frequently, all those fast notes matter least. It&#8217;s the long tones that convey &#8220;meaning&#8221; and emotion. It&#8217;s with long tones that poignant dissonance is stressed. Long tones are where the important syllables of the important words would fall &#8212; if there were any words &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 13px 88px 40px 0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/mcs_ariascore.jpg\" alt=\"mcs_ariascore.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"234\"><\/span>Some Instrumentalists like to make fun of singers. Singers can&#8217;t &#8220;count,&#8221; singers have an imprecise command of rhythm, so the jokes go. But the kind of singing (or speaking) in which the long sounds of critical words in a text are strongly produced and held, and the relatively unimportant quicker syllables are not over-pondered, the sort of vocalizing that may even linger when something is disturbing, or hard-to-follow, and then rush ahead with easy little linking-words on the tongue &#8212; that kind of singing has everything we players of instruments might want.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not learn how to count, but how to deliver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long notes are more important than short notes. Pianists often get confused. Because we don&#8217;t hold out long-duration tones with bow or breath, it&#8217;s easy to underestimate their significance. Virtuoso pianists spend so much time attending to what&#8217;s difficult in virtuoso pieces that it can seem these difficulties &#8212; often passages of short, quick notes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1527,"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":[125,126,383,382,76,1321,381,380],"class_list":{"0":"post-363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-beat","9":"tag-beating","10":"tag-counting","11":"tag-long-note","12":"tag-no-two-beats-are-created-equal","13":"tag-rhythm","14":"tag-singers","15":"tag-singing","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5342,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/5342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}