Variable Tempo on Piano
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Does anyone know about how the changing harmonic structure of the
music affects rhythm? I did a choir day with the English conductor Steven
Cleobury (lesser known brother of Nicholas Cleobury) and he told us to watch
him carefully as the changing harmonies of the music would require the tempo
to change. I’m used to flexible tempi in choral music according to phrasing,
say, or according to the lyrics of the piece, but this was new to me.
And a nice quote from Frank Zappa about harmonic construction in music:
“The creation and destruction of harmonic and ‘statistical’ tensions is
essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or
improvisation) which remains consistent and ‘regular’ throughout is, for me,
equivalent to watching a movie with only ‘good guys’ in it, or eating
cottage cheese.”
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