At 7:33 PM +0200 9/1/11, Florence + Michael wrote:
>I've already seen this marking in baroque music: 
>in a string part it denotes a measured 
>"Bogenvibrato", a change in intensity (not in 
>pitch), created with the bow. Basically you 
>should play the notes completely legato, in the 
>same bow stroke, with a < > effect on each note.

That's entirely possible, as specified (but I 
don't know how) in Marais' "The Kidneystone 
Operation" at "trembling at the sight of the 
surgical instruments"!

John

>
>If it were written in a keyboard piece, it would 
>signify a Bebung on a clavichord.

Yes, but on two repeated notes?

John


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