What is the best way to write choppy notes?
If I write, say, a sixteenth note and then three sixteenth rests, it's very difficult to read. Now I know the option of simply writing a quarter note and putting a dot underneath.
Are there other options and which one is the most readable for musicians?
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Hello StefanAumueller,
I’ve always been stuck with butchers or forensic medicine. In music one speaks of very short tones or chords. Since Beethoven, the lectures have become more and more differentiated, composers always write more precisely how they imagine the execution, including the articulation.
The composers used to know that ‘staccato’ is a participatory of the Italian ‘staccare’ (= separate). The original meaning is thus: separated, not bound. The extent to which the interspaces between the sounds should be, does not initially mean ‘staccato’. quarter notes with staccato dot are approximately shortened to eighth or sixteenth notes; they are not played very short or as short as possible.
Here are possible types of notation, the small triangle or the wedge means ‘staccatissimo’:
I don’t agree with the 4th presentation. However, it must be borne in mind that the same notation in various composers does not mean the exact same execution. The superlative ‘staccatissimo’ actually stands for ‘as short as possible’ – i.e. in the jargon of the butcher shop salesman: chopped off.
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Thank you very much. What is your opinion on better readability? With symbols or with breaks?
‘As short as possible’, I would write notes with eighth notes, eighth pauses and Staccatissimo wedges in quarters (which you mentioned in the question). This is how Beethoven finds it.
16th note + scored 8th break.
Thank you. Would you rather read that? As a quarter notes with a point?
Have a picture of me. From the belly I would choose the 16th. In the end, it also comes to the musical context. Although it sounds the same, a quarter of Stakkato is not 16th.
The notation with the punctuated eighth pause wrong.
After the sixteenth note, one writes a sixteenth note and an eighth note.
That’s the problem. It’s not easy to read anymore! What would you write here with short piano notes?
All right. Thank you.