Before getting too despondent about regularity and metronomes, bear in mind that the human pulse varies with respiration, and that music also has to breathe through phrasing. In fact playing even quite simple pieces are best when phrased with a sense of breathing as if to sing the next phrase thus losing that mechanical feeling of playing exactly in time. Only dance music played to be danced to is fairly strict, and a listen to venetian waltzes shows that is not always the case (not on the lute, those waltzes, I hasten to add) Pieces played mechanically such as on a music box often do not sound very musical for that reason (though a good music box can be set up to have rubato by the position of the pins, but that is not a topic for the lute list nick
On 17/6/08 14:50, "Andrew Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it was on this list that someone gave Thomas Mace's > instructions for a pendulum-like time-keeping device that consisted > of a bullet tied to the end of a piece of string attached to the > ceiling. Apparently it works... > > > On 17 Jun 2008, at 14:32, Narada wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be nice though to have a traditonal metronome, just to >> keep in >> flavour with it all. I wonder what they used back then? Had clockwork >> mechanism's been invented in the 1500's? But I know what you mean, >> when I >> run my metronome on my recording studio, my timing is awful, must >> be my age. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Andrew Gibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 17 June 2008 14:15 >> To: Lutenet >> Subject: [LUTE] Web metronome >> >> >> I've been trying to play along with a metronome more often (even >> though it's depressing to realise how unevenly I'm playing) and I >> found this online metronome that's nice to use: >> >> http://webmetronome.com >> >> and this one that's not as useful but simulates a real metronome: >> >> http://simple.bestmetronome.com >> >> Andrew > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
