Composers started marking their scores with instructions about dynamics

         Remember that the term dynamics refers to the intensity of volume with which certain passages are interpreted and that dynamic markings are signs that normally use abbreviated Italian words to indicate changes in intensity.

         Dynamics is an important element of musical expressiveness, as dynamic changes create a variety of contrasts, and increase or decrease the tension of certain sections of music, evoking particular feelings in listeners.

         According to the level of intensity or volume required from the musicians, we can find the following types of dynamic markings:

1.- Markings indicating a fixed volume:

        These are used to indicate that the volume should be maintained until another marking appears to modify it. Among these markings you will commonly see markings showed in the picture "dynamics".

2.- Markings indicating a variable volume

        These are used to indicate a changing intensity, or an intensity that should vary. Among these markings you will commonly see the symbols at the bottom of the following picture:

Composers started marking their scores with instructions about dynamics


Some history

        The Renaissance composer Giovanni Gabrieli was one of the first to indicate dynamics in music notation, but dynamics were used sparingly by composers until the late 18th century. Bach used some dynamic terms, including forte, piano, più piano, and pianissimo (although written out as full words), and in some cases it may be that ppp was considered to mean pianissimo in this period.

        The fact that the harpsichord could play only "terraced" dynamics (either loud or soft, but not in between), and the fact that composers of the period did not mark gradations of dynamics in their scores, has led to the "somewhat misleading suggestion that baroque dynamics are 'terraced dynamics'," writes Robert Donington.[11] In fact, baroque musicians constantly varied dynamics. "Light and shade must be constantly introduced... by the incessant interchange of loud and soft," wrote Johann Joachim Quantz in 1752.[12] In addition to this, the harpsichord in fact becomes louder or softer depending on the thickness of the musical texture (four notes are louder than two). This allowed composers such as Bach to build dynamics directly into their compositions, without the need for notation.

        In the Romantic period, composers greatly expanded the vocabulary for describing dynamic changes in their scores. Where Haydn and Mozart specified six levels (pp to ff), Beethoven used also ppp and fff (the latter less frequently), and Brahms used a range of terms to describe the dynamics he wanted. In the slow movement of the trio for violin, waldhorn and piano (Opus 40), he uses the expressions ppp, molto piano, and quasi niente to express different qualities of quiet.

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Canzon septimi toni (Giovanni Gabrieli, 1597)

Bach - Cello Suite No.1 i-Prelude

Alessandro Scarlatti, Folia - Giannalisa Arena, clavicembalo (harpsichord)

Beethoven Symphony No 9, 4º movimiento



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Composers started marking their scores with instructions about dynamics:

Well into the 17th century

For the most part, pianists and harpsichordists don’t have direct contact with the strings of their instruments. Therefore, they manipulate sound through a _______________mechanism.

volume and dynamics are interchangeable terms

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Which of the following two excerpts uses soft dynamics?
A. play
B. play

Excerpt B an excerpt of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata for piano, exemplifies soft dynamics.

Percussion players produce more or less volume by changing bow pressure and speed.

False Percussion players DON’T produce more or less volume by changing bow pressure and speed. They simply don’t use a bow.

The volume of this excerpt is an example of which of the following?
-play-

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  • Piano This excerpt from Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is an example of piano volume.

    Volume and dynamics are interchangeable terms.

    True

    As a musical concept, dynamics covers only the overall loudness or softness of a piece of music.

    False That was a false statement. Dynamics can refer to the overall loudness or softness of music, as well as to the process of gradual change between volume levels.

    Musicians have always made their own choices regarding volume to fine tune their playing to specific performance spaces.

    False This only happened before composers started marking scores with instructions about volume.

    This musical excerpt is an example of forte

    True This excerpt from Antonin Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance No. 8 is an example of forte.

    A pianist’s skill in manipulating volume is usually referred to as the performer’s_______________

    touch

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    Percussion players produce more or less volume by changing bow pressure and speed.

    false

    A pianist’s skill in manipulating volume is usually referred to as the performer’s

    volume and dynamics are interchangeable terms

    touch

    Composers started marking their scores with instructions about dynamics:

    well into the 17th century

    Volume and dynamics are interchangeable terms.

    true

    Among other factors, composers started writing dynamic markings in their scores because:

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  • New instruments allowed for more dynamic ranges and contrast

    For the most part, pianists and harpsichordists don’t have direct contact with the strings of their instruments. Therefore, they manipulate sound through a ___________ mechanism

    keyboard

    Aside from Carmina Burana (1937), Carl Orff is widely known for:

    his work in music education

    The volume of this excerpt is loud.
    0:22-0:33

    false

    As a musical concept, dynamics covers only the overall loudness or softness of a piece of music.

    false

    The volume of this excerpt is an example of crescendo.
    0:00-0:04

    false

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    No. Volume is determined with how much space an object occupies.
    Dynamics is not concerned with the same things.

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    True

    volume and dynamics are interchangeable terms

    The two terms are interchangeable.

    If you are speaking in terms of volume, then dynamics is the
    word that you are looking for.

    Dynamics means to get louder or softer by increasing or
    decreasing the volume or short to longer nouns. But it depends on
    your music director.

    Mass and volume aren’t interchangeable.

    The right answer is touch, but technique will count. The volume of music is referred to in musical terms as dynamics. A louder volume is called forte, and a softer volume is piano.

    Yes, Data and Information are interchangeable terms.

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  • The right answer is touch, but technique will count. The volume of music is referred to in musical terms as dynamics. A louder volume is called forte, and a softer volume is piano.

    Are the terms off-price and discounting interchangeable?
    Explain.

    No, they are not interchangeable.

    volume or note

    Yes they are

    False. Web and internet are not interchangeable terms. Web is a
    portion from the World Wide Web. But according to Discovering the
    Internet they are interchangeable. It just depends on how much
    knowledge you have about the two.

    liter is a unit of volume, gram is a unit of mass, the two are
    not interchangeable. However if you want to know about a specific
    substance you need to know the substance’s density to relate these
    two terms. Density= mass/ volume

    No

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    The dynamics is the volume of the piece and the tempo is the
    pace of the piece (slow or fast)

    Dynamics

    Yes, the musical term ‘diminuendo’ is a type of dynamics. The word ‘dynamics’ refers to existing sound in terms of its levels of loudness or softness. The word ‘diminuendo’ is Italian for ‘getting softer and softer’. So it measures sound in terms of softness. It therefore is a type of dynamics.

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    Dynamics means the volume of something. Pitch is the tone, how
    high or low the sound is.

    yes

    The terms are interchangeable, yes.

    Yes they are

    Hudhud musical elements in terms of Timbre, Dynamics, Rhythm,
    Pitch, Form

    Composers started marking their scores with instructions about dynamics
    volume and dynamics are interchangeable terms

    Do composers use tempo and dynamics to achieve expression?

    Composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used even fewer expression marks than their predecessors. Composers utilize tempo and dynamics to achieve expression.

    When applied to music the term dynamics refers to changes in quizlet?

    Terms in this set (164) When applied to music, the term "dynamics" refers to change in: Volume. A musical ensemble. A group of musicians that perform as a unit.

    What happens when a harpsichordist depresses a key?

    Depressing a key of a harpsichord results in the plucking of a string. Because the strings of the harpsichord have a much lower tension and diameter, inharmonicities due to stiffness are much less than those of the piano.

    Which of the following operas is based on a story set in British India where a British officer?

    Lakmé premiered in 1883 and is the last and most famous of the French Romantic composer Léo Delibes' operas. Set in British India during the mid-19th century, the opera tells the ill-fated love story of Lakmé, the daughter of a Brahmin high priest, and Gérald, a British army officer.