Hi Patrick, Short of conducting extensive field research in Ireland's pubs, you might try asking the question here.
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/ Cheers, Mike On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:59 AM, James Lowe <james.l...@datacore.com> wrote: > Hello, > > -----Original Message----- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore....@gnu.org [mailto: > lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe <lilypond-user-bounces%2Bjames.lowe>= > datacore....@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Horgan > Sent: 02 February 2011 04:05 > To: Mailinglist lilypond-user > Subject: How do you tell tempo for indications in English > > I'm setting some of O'Neill's Irish tunes, and the tempo indications are (a > selection): > > Animated, Boldly, Cheerful, Cheerfully, Gaily, Gracefully, Moderate, > Plaintive, Plaintively, Playful, Playfully, Rather slow, Slow, Slow and > distinctly, Slow and mournful, Slow and tenderly, Slow and with feeling, > Slow with expression, Slow and feeling, Spirited, Tenderly, Very slow, With > animation, With expression, With feeling, With spirit > > What do you do with that? I can find tables of usual tempo ranges for > italian tempo indications, but I have no idea what to do with these. > I'd like them to be authentic, in that the midi file would be about as fast > as the tune would usually be played in an Irish pub. Does anyone have any > ideas? > > --- > > I don’t think there is such a thing a 'authentic' tempo range if you are > referring to setting crotchet/quaver/minim tempo speeds. > > What you are asking, it seems is, 'what speed is 'cheerful''? > > Which doesn't makes much sense. > > I expect it was simply played 'cheerfully' and that would depend on who was > doing the playing. Also can you be sure that the same tune played in one > 'Irish pub' is any different from a 'non-Irish pub' or that other 'Irish > pub' down the road? The music is probably played as fast or slow as the > musicians play it and that can depend on how many times they have played > together, the smell of the crowd or simply the number of pints of the > 'black stuff' they have put away before/during the gig. ;) 110201-000063 > > Sorry if that sounds a bit flippant, but I am not sure what kind of answer > you are going to get other than someone else's guestimation of which you > could do yourself. > > Tempo in terms of words (rather than beat numbers) is more about feeling > than speed. > > James > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >
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