Paderewski plays the rhapsodies like improvisations - inspirations of the moment.Robert Challoner History of the science and art of music: Its origin, development, and progress (1880).The metronome a lifeless, soulless machine, cannot express the meaning, the object of inspiration, it cannot be used as a means to develop emotion - guided by a machine the performance is wholly mechanical.Daniel Gregory Mason The Tyranny of the Bar-Line.It may therefore be suggested, in conclusion, that the use of the metronome, even to determine the average rate of speed, is dangerous. A keen musical instinct revolts at playing even a single measure with the metronome: mathematical exactitude gives us a dead body in place of the living musical organism with its ebb and flow of rhythmical energy. It is notorious that to play with the metronome is to play mechanically - the reason being, of course, that we are then playing by the measure, or rather by the beat, instead of by the phrase. A good performance is so full of these minute retardations and accelerations that hardly two measures will occupy exactly the same time.Liszt is distinguished for the most passionate declamation Thalberg the most refined voluptuousness Clara Wieck the most ardent enthusiasm Henselt the most delicate lyrical taste: Not one gives the character of a piece of music without the individual colouring of his own mind not one plays according to the metronome.If over used, it can lead to loss of your internal rhythm, loss of musicality, and bio-physical difficulties from over-exposure to rigid repetition This is one of the worst abuses of the metronome. using the metronome as a constant guide to ramp up the speed or to keep the rhythm.James Brown III The Amateur String Quartet. Similarly, musicians ought to distinguish between (1) the sort of timing that results from dull, slavish obedience to the ticking of a soulless machine, and (2) that noble swing and perfect control of pulsation which comes into our playing after years of practice in treating and training the sense of time as a free, creative human faculty. Graphic artists understand well enough the essential and generic difference that exists between mechanically-aided drawing on the one hand and freehand on the other. refer by analogy to the sister art of drawing. I repeat, the metronome has no value whatsoever as an aid to any action or performance that is musical in intention. The metronome has no real musical value.Pedro Batista Understanding the Samba Groove.In fact, this representation neglects what makes up the samba essence in the first place. This series of even, perfectly quantized, 16th notes, is no more evocative of samba, than a metronome would be.It is not only an inartistic, but a downright antiartistic instrument. Quotes critical of the metronome How any musician could ever play with a metronome, passes my humble understanding.
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