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In message <2.2.32.20010420210337.006dde50@xxxxxxxxx>, Nigel Stobbs
<ns@xxxxxxxxx> writes
>Can anyone please decode the following markings which are not defined in my
>Boy's Own Book of Music?
>
BTW, these are German.
>1. Tempo di Masurek
Tempo di Mazurka?
If a Mazurka isn't defined, it's a Polish dance in 3/4 with the stress
in the bar falling on either the 2nd or 3rd beats. Speed about crotchet
= 90 or so - a _really_ slow one in a bar feel (though not conducted as
such).
>2. eilend
'Hastily'
>3. zogernd
>4. immer schneller
'always faster'; equivalent to stringendo, or maybe piu mosso.
>5. energisch
Energetically.
Dave
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