articulation
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On Clearly Articulating
articulate—express an idea or feeling fluently or coherently (from Latin articulare ‘divide into joints’) Well-articulated music has amazing communicative power, and when I listen to other musicians play the first thing I notice is how it articulates (or not). For drummers and percussionists, it’s impossible to hide behind sloppy articulation because the sounds we make Continue reading
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On Editing Music For Articulation
Over the past month as I was editing some new music for a piano-like instrument it struck me that what I was trying to do is make the music “breathe” more. One component of musical breathing has to with how its sounds are articulated. As my laptop’s dictionary reminds me, in music “articulation” refers to Continue reading
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