Hey guys, I'm writing a tune for Xylophone Solo and Band and am starting out with a few cadenzas. What would be the correct terminology to put on the score if I wanted the end of the cadenza to be ";as fast as you can";? Presto? Prestissimo? Vivo? I usually see those markings as styles of entire sections, I would just want it to be on the same level of ";crescendo poco a poco"; or ";molto rubato"; type stuff. Any help? Is there maybe a site that would have this stuff, or maybe a book ya'll would recommend?
That is a great resource for everything music: theory, terminology, history in some cases, among other things. There's a search feature on the right on the menu bar, so you could try using that. I tried searching for ";as fast as possible"; and all of the presto superlatives seemed to fit the bill:
[b][i]prestissimamente[/i][/b]: (Italian) very quickly, with the utmost rapidity, as fast as possible.
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over 15 years ago
Thanks for the site man, that's gonna help a lot. Have some karma for your toubles:)
Prestissimamente... hmmm... I better practice pronouncing that before I use it:)
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over 15 years ago
Is it a piece for percussion? Just put forte in... doesn't that mean as loud and fast as possible?
:p
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over 15 years ago
Very good site Bryan. I went there prestissimamente. ;) I lot of of good info there.
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over 15 years ago
[quote]Is it a piece for percussion? Just put forte in... doesn't that mean as loud and fast as possible?[/quote]
Nice one lol... but yea its a really good site, gonna come in handy in Music Lit. class when she starts spouting off words and I am just like... uhhh what was that?
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over 15 years ago
Italian is nice, but I kind of dig Maslanka's approach to directions. He just writes it all in English. It was kind of amusing playing Morning Star and seeing directions like ";slow down a lot"; and ";suddenly in tempo"; instead of ";molto rit."; and ";a tempo";. It's so simple and novel, I wonder why more composers don't do it. I guess we just like us our classical terms too much. :)
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[quote] Italian is nice, but I kind of dig Maslanka's approach to directions. He just writes it all in English. It was kind of amusing playing Morning Star and seeing directions like ";slow down a lot"; and ";suddenly in tempo"; instead of ";molto rit."; and ";a tempo";. It's so simple and novel, I wonder why more composers don't do it. I guess we just like us our classical terms too much. Smiley [/quote]
Probably because of the same reason many snare players are die-hard trad players :) It's part of the tradition and it looks cool.
Hoping not to incite a matched vs trad ";flamewar";, -Charlie
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I'm writing a tune for Xylophone Solo and Band and am starting out with a few cadenzas. What would be the correct terminology to put on the score if I wanted the end of the cadenza to be ";as fast as you can";? Presto? Prestissimo? Vivo? I usually see those markings as styles of entire sections, I would just want it to be on the same level of ";crescendo poco a poco"; or ";molto rubato"; type stuff. Any help? Is there maybe a site that would have this stuff, or maybe a book ya'll would recommend?
Thanks!