Am 11.11.2013 14:12, schrieb Janek Warcho?:
Another example: for centuries, it was the standard in vocal music to only beam together notes that are part of a melisma. Now, there was some reason behind it - to make clear what was a melisma and what wasn't - but that practice was nevertheless a bad idea. Now it is becoming common practice to beam vocal music the same as instrumental music, and indicate melismas using slurs (i've sung from both kinds of scores and i have to say that the old practice can make it*very* inconvenient to read rhythms. New practice is simply better; Gould also supports this new practice).
In 19th century song notation (e.g. look at all old Peters editions of Schubert/Schumann etc. songs) slurs were used to indicate melismas - but they were usually used _in combination_ with beams. I have come to _very much_ disagree to this _very common_ practice. Apart from being redundant this is "evil" because I have to tell virtually any singer (of any level) that these slurs do _not_ have any articulatory meaning. It's very hard to convince them on the intellectual level and even harder making them _really_ ignore them.
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