On Mar 25, 2011, at 2:37 PM, <[email protected]>
<[email protected]> wrote:
Expletives deleted, isn't it time we moved beyond the egotistical
false
pride of insisting that expressions be in Italian? Or that
dynamics be
in abbreviated Italian with extended greater than or less than signs?
This is not an attack on the Italians or on time-honored traditional
practices. If German or French composers wish to notate in their
native
languages for native players, why not?
The purpose of notation is to communicate as directly and to make the
music as easily performable as possible for the players.
If most of the players speak English, why not use English for
expressions and dynamics? [...]
For many of the commonest musical terms, the English word *is* the
Italian word.
The English word for crescendo is ... crescendo.
The English word for allegro is ... allegro.
And likewise for andante, legato, rubato, perdendosi, etc.
To render them instead as "increasing", "cheerful", "moving",
"bound", "stolen", "losing oneself", etc, would not further the
purpose of direct communication, even for us anglophones.
mdl
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