2022年7月9日 · One of the primary sources for information on (Baroque era) ornaments is found in the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, by J.S. Bach. An image can be found on Wikipedia, which also gives additional notated examples of mordents and turns.

2015年3月15日 · "Although mordents are now thought of as just a single alternation between notes, in the Baroque period it appears that a Mordent may sometimes have been executed with more than one alternation between the indicated note and the note below, making it …

2020年7月17日 · In baroque music mordents of both kinds might begin on the unwritten note. So in your example you might play Eb F Eb F. An upper mordent sign can also indicate a short trill, by the way. I keep saying 'might' because it's not known precisely what each composer intended.

2018年9月19日 · Mordents are a single rapid alternation of the note above/below and are differentiated by a short squiggle. An upper mordent, where the single alternation is above, looks like this: A lower mordent, where the single alternation is below, looks like this: In your piece, there are no trills, only upper

2020年10月2日 · In this YouTube video featuring five great pianists all performing Invention #1, note that only Gieseking plays mordents. 1 J.S. Bach, Inventions and Sinfonias (BWV 772-801) , Urtext of the New Bach Edition, ed. Georg von Dadelsen (1970, Bärenreiter).

2023年12月30日 · There are quite a few mordents in the piece and some of them are denoted with a preceding dot, like in the tenor voice in the image below. What does this mean? I am obviously supposed to do something differently from the normal mordents (which are also present, like in the alto and bass voices in the image), but I could not find any reference ...

2018年4月14日 · The following are bars 34 and 35 of Chopin's Waltz in A minor (op. posth.) If I understand the notation correctly, the mordent in bar 34 should be played C#, D, C#. Why is it denoted differently t...

2016年6月28日 · Bachs autograph here in wikipedia shows something similar: the round tail (first line, last two bars) appears on the left side and indicates a three-note-group followed by the zig-zag line symbolizing the alteration between two notes, and the direction of the tail indicates, whether the notes descend or ascend.

When the chromatic option is not selected the mordents play as expected. This is particularly annoying as the plugin adds the correct symbol for these chromatic mordents (although admittedly it doesn't add the accidental) even though the playback is wrong. So, for chromatic mordents, it is best to add the symbol manually, especially as you have ...

2020年8月22日 · These two are lower mordents, meaning a quick and single alternation with the note below it, meaning, for the second example, playing A G A quickly, with F remaining unaffected. For more infos you can refer to the link @BrianTowers gave you, or also this question, which is not exactly the same but could give you some hints.