Those fast 16th note passages are faster than the tempo would indicate. Nor do
they seem as fast as 32nd notes. I always took that sort of 'feel' to be 16th
notes at the quarter note triplet level. At least that has give to swing. I
would assume the brackets indicate an 'out of time' element at the notation
level. Other times I'm not so sure.
GJB
From: Christopher Smith <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2015 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Line
On Thu Jul 2, at ThursdayJul 2 4:52 PM, Barbara Touburg wrote:
> On 2-7-2015 22:44, Darcy James Argue wrote:
>> This is a dismayingly wrong-headed, over-literal transcription.
>
> I know, I know. I'm taking the pedantry out. :)
> But what do these lines mean?
Thank goodness you are doing that! This transcriber doesn't seem to hear ground
pulse at all. Bill Evans had time so good he was almost a mutant, and we can
hear it perfectly even in his rubato playing. Darcy introduced me to an
excellent term for this; he calls it "rhythmic authority." It means the player
may not be putting rhythms down exactly according to the metronome, but he
knows (and we can hear) exactly what his relationship to the ground pulse is. I
had never heard it expressed so specifically before, and I use it all the time
now.
I thought at first the brackets might be a pedal marking, but no, it was only a
coincidence at first. It seems that it might be an indication where Bill goes
from separately articulated notes to a more legato phrasing. Perhaps any other
writer would put a slur over the phrase. There is so much needless stuff in
this notation that I would question the very need to indicate some of what he
notated.
Christopher
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