麥浪 2015-5-21 21:06
A-12.Meri Tone Color 沉音的音色
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[/size][/font][b][font=新細明體, serif][size=14pt]原作者：柿堺香老師[/size][/font][/b]
[b][font=新細明體, serif][size=14pt]英文翻譯[/size][/font][/b][b][font=Helvetica, sans-serif][size=14pt]: Zachary Braverman[/size][/font][/b]
[b][font=新細明體, serif][size=14pt]進階篇[/size][/font][/b][b][font=Helvetica, sans-serif][size=14pt]12.[/size][/font][/b]
[b][font="][size=14.0pt]January,2003[/size][/font][/b][size=14.0pt] [/size]
[b][font="][size=14.0pt]A-12.Meri Tone Color [/size][/font][/b][b][font=Verdana][size=14.0pt]沉音的音色[/size][/font][/b][size=14.0pt][/size]
[font="][size=14.0pt]This is quite an ambitious topic for the first tip of the year. But then again,there may be some who see this and think “not meri [i]again[/i]…”[/size][/font]
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[font="][size=14.0pt]Once when I was giving a lesson to a student, we were practicing a honkyoku which began with Tsu-no-meri. Something about the student’s Tsu-no-meri struck me as wrong, but I couldn’t pin down what it was. The pitch might have been a little high, but that wasn’t what made it seem so wrong. [/size][/font]
[font="][size=14.0pt]Since the student was trying to play the note with lots of volume, the pitch was indeed a little bit high, but there are some cases when a high meri pitch can be compensated for by slightly raising the pitch of the following note.Instead, it was the [i]tone color[/i] of the meri that struck me as wrong. [/size][/font]
[font="][size=14.0pt]It is this[i] tone color[/i] which is so crucial for meris to be truly effective.The absolute requirement for this tone color is [i]pitch[/i], with [i]volume [/i]following in terms of importance. [/size][/font]
[font="][size=14.0pt]It is not true all the time, but very often meris only occur within the context of the song fleetingly. They appear and then vanish before you know it. In these cases, it’s best not to focus too much on [i]volume[/i], because it is [i]pitch [/i]and [i]color[/i] which give the meri note its meaning within the piece. [/size][/font]
[font="][size=14.0pt]This is shaping up to be another meri year![/size][/font][size=14.0pt][/size]