On 15 Jul 2005, at 10:36 AM, John Howell wrote:
At 11:51 PM -0400 7/14/05, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 14 Jul 2005, at 11:31 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
I had to create a playback file for my jazz ear training class, and
I ended up adding a lot of non-printing articulations to change note
lengths where the performance practice required it (short quarter
notes, in my case.) This idea might be useful to you if you have to
do this often.
You mean you *don't* normally put articulations on *all* quarter
notes (in a swing style)?
I have never had good results leaving jazz quarter notes up to
chance. They are all marked either staccato or tenuto (or, of
course, ^ or >).
Seems to me that you've got three possible scenarios here.
1. Writing for experienced jazz musicians who live in the style,
don't need that level of overcontrol, and might even be insulted by
it.
No. Even the best New York players *do* need that level of
"overcontrol," as you say, because there is *absolutely no agreement
amongst jazz musicians about how to interpret unmarked quarter notes.*
Some players play all unmarked eighths short, some play them long, some
play them somewhere in between, and if you don't mark them *all*, you
will have to waste rehearsal time telling everyone which it is. And
even then, people will *still* slip back into their default habits from
time to time.
Chris Smith said that quarter notes followed by rests are always played
short and don't need an articulation -- but have you heard Brookmeyer's
New Art Orchestra? Tons of full-value quarter notes followed by rests.
- Darcy
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