On 15 Feb 2006 at 10:12, Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote: > I really don't think Tchaikovsky was looking > for a discernable px6 distinctly audible from a px5 or any other > volume delineation; I think he was simply saying "HEY! Give me the > softest, quietest, nearly inaudible sound you can produce!" I > think it was his way of saying ABSOLUTELY the quietest of quietest.
This is what I consider "voodoo dynamics." The reason I use the term "voodoo" is because the stereotypical example of voodoo is sticking pins in a doll that represents a person in order to hurt the person the doll represents. That practice represents a belief that doing one thing will cause something to happen that is different and operates on a different object. The Tchaikovsky example, like the Verdi one, is a case of writing something that is probably impossible in order to have a psychological effect that gets you something other than what is literally written. To me, that's sticking pins in a doll to make it play really softly. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, but if you stuck the pin in the person you were trying to harm, you *know* for a fact that they'd feel it. Likewise, if you want someone to play as softly as possible, just write "as softly as possible." -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
