Mozart's grace notes | Shorts Flute lessons

Musical notation is in constant progress and it is very difficult to clearly define how ornamentation was executed in times when recordings did not yet exist. However, musicologists come to the rescue and try to save us by making use of other historiographic sources ranging from treatises of the time to love letters from composers to their beloved intercepted by time and human curiosity. As far as the bordatura and acacciaturi are concerned, it is difficult to know how to play them "correctly", maybe that word has no place in this context, or maybe it does... However, there are certain conventions that have been adapted over time as there is a certain unanimity about them in the community of musicologists and performers. This is the case of the passage that my student and I are working on, it belongs to the arrangement of Mozart's Andante in C major by Theobald Boehn for flute and piano. In this opportunity we decided to take this grace note as one more eighth note at a rhythmic level and give it some emphasis since the phrase required it.

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