On 16.03.2006 Andrew Stiller wrote:
Yes and no. Consider: a quarter note slurred to a succession of 17 tied whole notes. The
"phrase" consists only of the first two notes; extending the slur to the last
whole note (especially across multiple system breaks) would be IMO an absurdity.
That said, I will agree that *most* of the time, Darcy is right. But situations
like that described above are not all that rare.
I have got so used to the "around 1800" practice of tieing only to the
first or from the last of the tied notes, that I prefer this _by far_ to
long slurs over several tied notes. I am sure this depends largely on a)
the kind of music (ie 18th/early 19th century or late 19th century and
later) and b) on the kind of style (in my case period instrument
performance, which involves working mostly with critical/complete/Urtext
editions or 18th/19th century originals). I actually find long slurs
over tied notes distracting (and a waste of space).
Johannes
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