There is one situation where I don't know for sure what to do :
considering that the duration of the anacrusis is substracted to the last measure, what are you doing when you have a five quarter notes anacrusis and that the last measure has notes to fill, let's say, a half note? There is then not enough beats left on the measure to substract 5 quarter notes.
Le 05-03-18, à 04:36, Giovanni Andreani a écrit :
The pick up measure, or the section that anticipates the first beat of
the measure which coincides with the beginning of the rhythmical -
harmonical structure of the musical phrase is also called "anacrusis".
The original Greek term "anákrousis" generated from "anakrooûn", which
meant 'to take back', to 'prelude' (pre-play). Italian language is mainly
a mix between Latin and Greek and the only term to describe a pick up
measure, in Italy, is "anacrusi". An anacrusis can be related to a
measure as to a phrase as to short motives, depending on many factors,
such as the deepness of level of analysis of the examined structure, etc...
Generally speaking, an anacrusis would be compensated by a smaller
measure ending the structural section (this happens in folk music and in
the stylized "dances" developed since the pre-early Baroque period), thus
justifying the way to count measure number one from the first complete
measure.
In Italian language, when the pick up measure is not compensated at the
end of the section and the beginning of the same pick up measure
coincides with the beginning of the rhythmical - harmonical structure of
the musical phrase, it's not then defined as an anacrusis but it's called
"acefalo" (which, coming from The Greek 'aképhalos' and changed in the
Latin 'acephalum' means without head) and is considered as the first
measure of the section. However, an "acefalo" beginning is not always
very simple to state, and implicates an introspective voyage into style
and harmonic - melodic - rhythmic structure.
Giovanni Andreani
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