In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Owain Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>It's wishful thinking that it was that simple - for some people, >acciaccatura and grace note are synonymous. For others, grace notes are >appogiaturas. Others slash appogiaturas. Many players pay no attention >to the presence or absence of slashings. >The only solution is to establish a house style, eg 'crushed' notes are >slashed and accented notes are not, and stick to it stubbornly. and "musighi" writes: >Thanks for the response, but what you described is in fact a simple >grace note, where the grace note is played before the main note. >However, acciaccatura is played differently: Let's say you have C & D. >they are played at the same time. D is released immediately while C is >held for the duration of the note. This way, you clearly hear the >dissonance of the interval of a 2nd. Gardner Read explains it this way: >"The acciaccatura is no ornament at all, but a manner of playing, then >releasing part of, a chord in keyboard music. It has, then, no real >connection with the ornament (appoggiatura and grace note) under >consideration." I was surprised by this, and looked up both "acciaccatura" and "appoggiatura" in the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music. This was even more surprising, because under "acciaccatura" it had a definition consistent with the above, but under "appoggiatura" the definition of "acciaccatura" with which I was familiar: a crushed note, played before the beat and stopped before the main note was sounded. This had descriptions of the modern nomenclature, a slashed eighth, and the older nomenclature, one or more sixteenths. The two definitions of "acciaccatura" were inconsistent, and neither made any reference to the other. One feature of the appoggiatura definition was that in all of its examples, the duration of the appoggiatura related to the beat (though in many different ways} and it started on the beat in place of the following note, from which its duration was subtracted. This is as described also in "The true art of playing the keyboard instruments", by C P E Bach. -- Ken Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.mooremusic.org.uk/ I reject emails > 100k automatically: warn me beforehand if you want to send one _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
