On Dec 21, 2005, at 4:33 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
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.
This kind of mistake is one I would not expect from David. Pincé is simply the French word for "mordent"--nothing inverted about it, and please note spelling.
Just to make sure we understand each other: a mordent consists of the notated pitch followed by the lower neighboring tone followed by the notated tone again. An inverted mordent (which does not occur in Baroque music--see below) goes up instead of down. The two terms are often confused, because in music of the past 200 years the inverted mordent is by far the more common, but nonetheless the plain mordent is the downward one.
BTW (and to forestall more confusion) the *symbol* for the inverted mordent does occur in Baroque notation, but it is not called that, nor is it performed so: it is, rather, a short trill, beginning on the auxiliary note like other Bq. trills.
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