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Expressive Intonation

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If you didn’t get my reference to ‘expressive intonation’ yesterday, it’s the art of playing out of tune deliberately in order to create an effect.

For instance, in a particularly wistful passage on the G string, I might emphasize the painfulness of the music and highlight the high point of a phrase by fractionally flattening it so that it is on the very edge of sounding like it is comfortably in tune.

A Piece Of Expressive Intonation
(slightly exaggerated…)

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Or if I play something particularly out of tune, I might pass it off nonchalantly as ‘expressive intonation’. But of course I’d never do that ;)

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