Performative interpretation cannot be identified simply with what performers add to the material being performed. Most users should sign in with their email address.
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It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Sign In or Create an Account. Sign In. Advanced Search. Search Menu. Article Navigation. Close mobile search navigation Article Navigation. Volume You might spend months getting to know the piece, but your audience might be hearing it for the first time. You need to point out the important things to them, so they hear the story, not just a bunch of notes.
When you speak, you offer a variety of clues about how to break up what you are saying into comprehensible chunks. You probably do it without thinking much about it, but it involves things like the pitch, volume, and speed of your voice. To interpret music, you use similar tools: you might demonstrate that a musical phrase is ending by slowing down a tiny bit and bringing the volume down.
Or you might help the audience hear what you believe is a warlike quality in a certain passage by using bombastic accents and a strict, military-inspired tempo. All of this requires you to have opinions about the music. Two tour guides might give different tours of the same place, because they have different opinions about what is interesting or important—they are each interpreting. Your interpretation of the music should be based on synthesizing lots of factors.
Use tonal variations ranging from bright to dark, as well as vibrato if your instrument allows , to enhance the moods you convey. Start with steady configurations of stronger and weaker beats, and then fine-tune your emphasis according to the melodic and harmonic content. For example, when long notes in a melody fall on offbeats, they usually call for some degree of accent; when phrases repose on downbeats, those downbeats typically need softening i.
Move from weak beats to strong ones and from short notes to long so that your music pulsates with forward motion. Use a self-recorder to help you assess your timing and execution — the Zoom H4n is a favorite tool among performers. Bring out the high points of compositions and pull back at subdued moments, saving your boldest gestures for climactic peaks.
Excellent point, Vili — thanks! I too enjoy the coloristic aspects of finely shaded intonation. Hi, Thanks, this is great post. Something that I have noticed in my experiences as a performer is that once I had my intonation right then a lot of other musical characteristics like tone and colour of the sound simply fall into place and sometimes vice-verse.
Hi Grace — thanks for stopping by! These are definitely the essentials of interpretation!
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