From the course: Learning Music Notation
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Expression and articulation example
From the course: Learning Music Notation
Expression and articulation example
- [Instructor] So we've discussed a large variety of symbols and text markings that communicate expression to the performer. Without a doubt, adding and formatting these markings is the most time-consuming aspect of music notation. But I can't stress the difference that slurs, expressions, and articulations make in a musical performance. Let's review what we've learned and take a look at a representative score that includes a ton of markings. So just a few things. Remember that anything to do with tempo, any tempo markings, goes above the top staff in a score. Now this marking here, endente piu tosto Adagio, that will end up on all the parts, but in the score it only shows up on the top line. Things like dynamics go below the staff. Hairpins go below the staff. Text that has to do with kind of the emotion of how you play the music, that goes below the staff. Anything to do with technique like string bowings, that would go above the staff. In general you want all of this stuff to be as…
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