Non-melisma slurs in vocal music?
Posted: 07 Dec 2018, 17:12
Is my meaning clear from my use of a slur for the Dowager in bars 224 & 225? Crotchet (1/4) = 84.
This is a piece put aside in 2011 and now due extensive revision, including in its engraving (eg I plan smaller italic bar numbers, all vocal articulations to be above the stave &c &c &c). However, my specific question here relates to the slur. This type of slur is very common in nineteenth century opera, but with modern beaming etc, I'm wondering if its meaning might seem obscure or redundant.
BTW the obsessively repeating double bassoon is echoing and mocking an earlier vocal phrase: ‘give it all to the poor’ (full sentence: ‘He means to give it all to the poor’).
This is a piece put aside in 2011 and now due extensive revision, including in its engraving (eg I plan smaller italic bar numbers, all vocal articulations to be above the stave &c &c &c). However, my specific question here relates to the slur. This type of slur is very common in nineteenth century opera, but with modern beaming etc, I'm wondering if its meaning might seem obscure or redundant.
BTW the obsessively repeating double bassoon is echoing and mocking an earlier vocal phrase: ‘give it all to the poor’ (full sentence: ‘He means to give it all to the poor’).