Re: dynamics: sf vs sfz

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thank you for your elaboration on the dynamics; much appreciated.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 6:11 AM Kieren MacMillan
<kieren_macmillan@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> As composer, pianist, and conductor, I can offer that the consensus among 
> most of the musicians I know is that sfz is [in modern practice] considered 
> different from sf, especially with respect to the envelope of the note: in 
> "equation" terms, one might write sfz = sf + >. An analogous difference 
> distinguishes fz as different from both sf and sfz.
>
> In performance of more "historical" music (say, Beethoven and before), these 
> distinctions are not as widely or faithfully observed.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
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