David H. Bailey wrote:
While ad.lib. often means the performer is in control of tempo/in, strictly speaking it means the section can be taken or not, at the pleasure of the performer. At least that's how it is defined in the New Harvard Dictionary of Music.
Michael Withers wrote:
Thinking about it ... is 'ad lib' the right term for a few bars that can be
missed out? I'm more used to seeing 'ad lib' in the context of cadenzas or
sections where the 'soloist' is in control of the tempo/interpretation.
Maybe the bars in question should be indicated with brackets and marked as
'optional'.
Michael Withers
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Aaron Sherber wrote:
Hoping someone can help me out with my current brain short-circuit...
In the middle of a piece of music, let's say there are a few bars which the oboe can play or can leave out, at the conductor's discretion. So those bars are marked 'ad lib.' Immediately following are bars which the oboe must play. What indication cancels the ad lib?
I know that one way of making this clear is to print the ad lib section with reduced noteheads, but isn't there some term which I can use as well? Is the answer simply 'Play'?
Thanks, Aaron.
I guess the translation of Ab Lib. as 'at pleasure' means there's probably no negative. Unless you want to instruct the players to perform 'without pleasure'. Perhaps a textual (english) description, or even "cancel ad lib.", would be better?
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