At 4:33 PM -0500 12/21/05, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 21 Dec 2005 at 12:51, John Howell wrote:
(Another ornament
no longer used is the "pincée, a kind of vibrato
trill, which had its own sign.)
I've never heard of pincé being considered a form of vibrato -- it's
a form of ornament, similar to what we'd call an inverted mordant in
Bach's keyboard music.
As I understand it, on the viol it is a vibrato
action involving two fingers, one firmly behind
the fret, the other pressed tightly against it
and striking the string on or just above the
fret. Thus it is both a kind of vibrato and a
kind of trill, and if short enough could be taken
as an inverted mordant. It has no analog in
keyboard music that I can think of.
The analog in woodwind music, however, is the
flatement. It is different in that it lowers the
pitch while the pincé raises it, but both are
essentially trills on the same pitch and not
between two different pitches.
What I discovered is that the pincé can easily be
duplicated on violin without the fret to work
across, making it a legitimate ornament for
baroque music although not for modern.
Then again, the context in which I know the term is limited to French
viola da gamba solo repertory from c. 1700-40.
Probably the music in which it was most used.
But the gist of your post is correct -- there are no standard symbols
historically, though I think Dennis is correct that a wavy line (not
the trill symbol) is pretty self-explanatory in modern notation, as a
general indicator. But I agree that the composer needs to specify the
exact preferred performance.
As much as possible, yes. "Molto vibrato" isn't a bad general instruction.
John
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