David Whitwell – Page 2

On the Significance of the TitleOn the Significance of the Title

Reprinted from “On the Significance of the Title,” The NBA Journal, Vol. LV, Nr. 2, Winter, 2015. In April 2015, I will be conducting an all-city honor band in San

Tenuto and Fermata: Rebels Against the Tyranny of NotationTenuto and Fermata: Rebels Against the Tyranny of Notation

For a million years or more, singers and instrumentalists playing on natural instruments made music freely with the sole goal of expressing their feelings. But once notation appeared the “rules”

The Maxime Principle: Thoughts on the origin of dynamic markingsThe Maxime Principle: Thoughts on the origin of dynamic markings

In a communication we recently received from Professor Maxime in Paris, she encouraged all instrumentalists to begin thinking of the Italian piano and forte symbols to mean relative degrees of