Musical Glossay

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bacchetta, drumstick, baguette, Schlägel

A stick to hit a percussion instrument. Also stick. Things used for keyboard percussion instruments and timpani are called mallets. bacchetta also refers to baton.

Often abbreviated as marc.

In many cases, it is interpreted as a Marquardt for notes for which other articulation symbols are not written because there is no symbol.

In fact there are many cases where notes with nothing written are marked as Marcato. In some cases it is sometimes interpreted as Tenut, but how to play depends on the sense of the player.

Specifically, it is common to play as shown in the following figure.

The horizontal axis of blue figure is time and the vertical axis is volume.

Basically the length of the sound is the same as Tenut, but the volume decays. When the length becomes shorter, the difference with Staccato disappears, and if the volume does not change, the difference with Tenut loses.

In keyboard instruments, we must devise expressive methods.

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