On May 6, 2007, at 11:47 PM, Mark D Lew wrote:
it's always possible to make your score even more precise. You can give an exact metronome mark for every change of tempo, including every ritard. You can litter the score with dynamic markings, at the top and bottom of every hairpin. You can spell out every lyric phonetically in order to insist on the desired regional accent. You could pursue this as far as you like, even well into the realm of the absurd, specifying the required size of the hall, attire of the performers, or whatnot.
All of these things--all of them--have been put into scores in the past fifty years, often by major composers. Check out any score by Crumb, e.g.
I do some of these things myself. For example, I feel that if the dynamic is not specified at the end of a hairpin, you're just asking for trouble.
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