I've spoken to a number of musicians recently, including a noted orchestral conductor, and several composers who all seem to feel that the dynamic 'mezzo piano' is basically a meaningless dynamic, and they think it should never be used. I've even heard one go as far as to say that the same is true of 'mf' as well. I personally don't agree with this at all, and for me there is a clear distinction between p, mp and mf, but I was wondering how widespread this feeling about mp is, and how folk on the list feel about it? And if it's redundant, then why is it redundant?
C.
As a composer/arranger those dynamics have very definite meanings for me, and I don't understand why anyone would think otherwise. Our string orchestra is currently rehearsing Grieg and Tchaikovsky, and both use even finer gradations, like "piu p" in a pp passage, or "meno f" in an f passage.
John
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