2021年2月10日 · What precisely does this notation mean in the first bar treble clef? From ear, the note appears to be held until it’s sounded again - is that the intention, and wouldn’t a dotted eight be a reasonable alternative? Besides that, why are the two tenuto notes beamed? It’s from Michael Nyman’s ‘The Heart Asks Pleasure First’.

2019年1月11日 · A tenuto marking is somewhat of an accent mark for note length, but to a lesser degree. While a tenuto isn't an outright fermata, it means to put more emphasis on a note.

2023年10月23日 · The combination of a staccato dot with a tenuto marking would normally indicate the that the chords are to be played portato, with a small gap between them. The slurs clearly contradict this. When faced with contradictory markings in a piece of music the most expedient solution is to simply play whatever makes most musical sense to the performer.

2024年12月30日 · The tenuto marking must be a mistake: The note just after the one marked tenuto is on the beat and the crescendo leads until that top note. The phrase is therefore going one note beyond the one marked tenuto. This indicates the b flat should be used to carry the phrase to the c, and speaks against emphasising it with the articulation.

2020年5月29日 · I'm a bit stuck on how I feel it's most appropriate to place staccato in a piece I'm writing. The excerpt below is not from the piece I'm working on -- I just wrote up a phrase to show how this sit...

Rit is probably ritenuto, an immediate slowing down, as opposed to rubato, and tenuto means hang on for full note value - or even a touch longer: which makes sense as one will make the other happen.So, the whole bar should come at a slightly slower pace than the preceding bars.

2020年3月28日 · How would you play this? I think I generally understand how ties work but I'm a bit confused by the marked articulation. Would you hear a distinction between the two notes?

In the second theme of the recapitulation of Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata where the bass line goes into the treble clef and the bass register becomes part of the melody, I see the marking ben tenuto il basso. I tried looking it up last night and couldn't find an answer.

2020年5月1日 · The tenuto mark is always above or below the chord, but how does one indicate which note within, say, a 3- or 4-note chord should be emphasized? Do you just have to know, or is there a way to notate this? There's a similar question here, but it doesn't address the question of tenuto use specifically.

2014年5月4日 · That mark is known as a tenuto and when it's over the note it means to hold the note for the full duration and make the transition between notes more legato than normal. You can think of a tenuto as the opposite of a staccato where …