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  • April 7, 2013 at 4:04 pm #61572
    diane-michaels
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    I am playing the 2nd harp part to @[[komarov-s-fall:Piece:Komarov’s Fall (Dean, Brett)]] and like a previous harpist who wrote “what’s this” in the part, curious as to what the composer meant.

    Measure 170, marked tremelo, pres de la table, I have a series of pairs of octaves in the first and second octaves (C#’s paired with D’s, etc…). The composer has added one more comment that confuses me: “tremelo effect by scraping thumbnail along length of string, increase speed to create cresc.”

    Any takers?

    April 7, 2013 at 8:50 pm #61573
    Elizabeth Volpé Bligh
    Participant

    Hi, Diane!
    I suspect that he means to do a “trino” effect like South American harpists do, strumming the two strings with the fingernail back and forth. It won’t create a crescendo, but maybe he felt that the increased speed would create that effect. Have you considered emailing the composer and asking? If you get an answer, let us know!

    April 10, 2013 at 5:39 pm #61574
    diane-michaels
    Participant

    I think it’s just some bad copy editing. The comment looks like it’s attached to this measure, but the same instructions appear in the 1st harp, definitely attached to a specific measure. So I’m going to assume that it belongs with the tremelo on the 6th octave C in the 13th measure from the end.

    It’s funny – this end section is to be played “suddenly weightless and floating” and that seems to apply to the text in the part, too.

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