From the course: Beginning Acoustic Guitar Music Lessons
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Musical expression, phrasing, and dynamics
From the course: Beginning Acoustic Guitar Music Lessons
Musical expression, phrasing, and dynamics
- Expression, music is not just about keeping time and playing the right notes or chords. In order for music to have an emotional effect, it needs a sense of expression. Two very important elements of musical expression are phrasing and dynamics. Phrasing. Phrasing is the way that touch, volume and tempo are used to imply a sense of direction, movement, and rest in a piece of music. If notes are like words, then phrasing is the way that the words are made to sound like sentences or complete thoughts. Phrasing markings. Written music uses a large number of markings and terms to communicate phrasing and expression to the performer. Many of these terms are Italian. A quick tour of some commonly used terms should give you some ideas for your own music. First, the phrase mark is a curved line that loosely connects an entire passage of music. It can be confused with a slur or a tie, but the phrase mark is usually shown above the staff and may have slurs or ties beneath it. Other phrasing…
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