Your expressive vocabulary for music depends on every nuance
you can find, and many opportunities exist within the realm of articulation.
There are many different kinds of accents for example: ones that rely more
heavily on a more round sound and vibrato for the accent, (adding weight to the
note) versus accents that are sharp and
most decidedly handled by the tongue on the attack (adding more point to the
note). Releases can have many shapes: they can be square and sharply cut off
(think 20th century music) or elegantly tapered (more Mozartian and 18th century).
Listen to the beginning of each note and try several different attacks on for
size as you practice...interpret the symbols for accents, staccato and legato
in several different ways. You will be able to arrive at a creative solution
that sounds beautiful. Same idea with releases...and always take care not to go
flat on the ends of tapered notes.
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