Timeline for answer to Guidelines for notating legato by phoog
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| 5 hours ago | comment | added | Tim | @AlexJ - disagree to some degree. Can't think of an instrument which cannot play legato, and playing with slight articulation? Sorry. Non-legato and tenuto are both on the way to staccato, and if one listened to a player playing as you describe, they're be thinking why aren't those notes joined together? So not wrong, certainly not very wrong. Maybe this is the basis for a question from you? | |
| 7 hours ago | comment | added | AlexJ | @Tim That's just a very wrong assumption, then; at least in that it will vary a lot based on instrument and the piece being played. Some music does lend itself to a natural legato approach, but the default should be full value notes with (tempo/rhythm permitting) a very slight articulation between each - basically non legato or maybe undifferentiated tenuto. And, also, composers did not always feel it necessary to write down what would be obvious to anybody who has sufficient stylistic awareness of the music in question! | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Tim | Good question. But are they there at the start of every piece that is legato? | |
| yesterday | comment | added | phoog | @Tim why then are there marks for legato? | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Tim | I always felt that unless told otherwise, a piece should be played legato. Sort of default. Staccato generally has marks to tell, so, if in doubt, play legato. | |
| yesterday | history | answered | phoog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |