Blue Violet

Comment by Trapdoor2 on June 3, 2009 at 11:16am

So, what's your interpretation of "segue" here? I see this term a lot in the rep. and often think "what the heck are they trying to tell me?" I mean, it is there for a purpose...isn't it?

Sort of like the usage of "symphony"...

Comment by Tim Twiss on June 3, 2009 at 11:37am

I think it has to do with the articulation. Segue also means to "contunue in the same manner". If the first phrase has that articulation mark (curved arc) then I think the rest of the dotted eighth/sixteenth would continue in that way.

Comment by Trapdoor2 on June 3, 2009 at 1:13pm

Articulation...I forget that we're looking at a fiddle book. I was looking at it as a series of hammer-on/pull-off combinations but since this is fiddle music, does it have something to do with bow strokes?

Comment by razyn on June 5, 2009 at 10:48am

Sort of like the usage of "symphony"...

Isn't that about the same as "tutti," meaning that the rest of the minstrel line gets to make a racket? And maybe there's a walkaround; anyway, the rest of the line is mostly percussion, of a fairly primitive sort, and I think calling it "symphony" is a bit tongue-in-cheek. Assuming banjo-tutor music -- at most, two other melodic instruments would be coming in (fiddle, and/or some kind of squeezebox). And the banjo music doesn't include harmony parts for them, does it? Not that the present example is banjo music, but it also doesn't say "symphony."

Just sharing my ignorance, really. But I've been to minstrel shows, pre-1955, and pretty much everything in the "orchestra" was treated as a sendup except, possibly, the melody-playing soloist. Although the bones player may in fact have been the better musician.

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