This thread has been kind of funny for me, as I regularly do copy
work for a composer who habitually slurs only to the first tied note
-- but in his case, it's just laziness/force of habit. Since this
type of slurring is completely unacceptable in commercial copywork, I
regularly have to re-do almost all of his slurs, and I'm constantly
trying to get him to remember to slur to the last tied note.
I can only hope he's not reading this thread, otherwise I'll *never*
get him to change his ways...
- Darcy
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On 18 Mar 2006, at 5:13 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
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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