i am constantly reminded on this thread, of the Duke Ellington song
"it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"............swing can
mean so many things in the musical genre....my own learning being that
swing involves anticipation of the beat.......or slightly out of
beat(tune)........<grin>
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:04:27 -0800, David W. Fenton
<lists.fin...@dfenton.com> wrote:
On 9 Feb 2009 at 17:46, earlrs...@aol.com wrote:
Mr Fenton... that's a HUGE statement for so little backup "Whether or
not
it was intended by the original practicioners" and your support for it
where
"you" grew up.. if you have read ANY of the Wagner literature and heard
ANY of
the conductors of the direct Wagner lineage, Muck, S Wagner, Nickisch
or even
subjected them to audio analysis in for example Digital Performer, you
would
very quickly that an EXTREMELY flexible tempo
I have not said anything about tempo...
is the order of the day and that
there is NO SUCH THING as
"all notes being of equal weight".
And I said exactly that -- I said that weight in the Wagnerian style
was determined by the shape of the line, not by metric position. Did
you perhaps miss that post?
I have no idea where you got this "play it
like a Sousa March/metronomically" idea,
That is ridiculous -- nothing swings more than a Sousa march.
but it is directly contradictory to
Wagner's wishes and contradicts historically informed performance
practice.
Metronome marking and tempo have nothing at all to do with what I'm
speaking of, so I don't think it's possible to have a discussion when
you're speaking about one topic and I'm speaking of an entirely
different one.
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