Re: grace notes MIDI playback

[Shane Brandes]

Classical era Grace notes are taken out of the following note at their
full temporal value, unless flagged then they come before the beat.
Generally the most important thing is that in both classical era and
baroque music the value of the graces are an equal subdivision of the
tone so graced. Somewhere in the Romantic era that habit must have
gotten lost. It was always amusing to see students coming in
unprepared for the wrath that resulted in messing that little facet
up. Most amusing ever was the fellow who came in to teach a master
class and tried to "correct" some mordents in a slow movement in a
Bach partita. They were executed perfectly and the poor girl being
"corrected" was totally perplexed. So he finally sat down at the piano
and gave an example. The girl carefully explained to his chagrin how
they needed to be properly subdivided.


On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Gilberto Agostinho
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> David Wright wrote
>> That's not true for all appoggiaturas of that era, is it?
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> Well, with old music it's always tricky to find rules for these type of
> things, and to cater our MIDI output around it will lead to madness IMO. But
> I'd say it's quite safe to assume the meaning of contemporary appoggiaturas
> (this problem is similar to the accacciaturaL the modern is to be played as
> short as possible on the beat, but in old music this will vary wildly).
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>> [they] suspends the principal note by taking away the time-value of the
>> appoggiatura prefixed to it
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> From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_%28music%29#Appoggiatura
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> For some of the old rules, see pp. 43--46 from
> https://books.google.cz/books?id=TMdf1SioFk4C&pg=PA44&dq=appoggiatura&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=appoggiatura&f=false
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