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SuperConductor User’s Manual
Vibrato
On many instruments, playing a long perfectly stable tone produces an
unattractive result. Players often add a touch of vibrato (vih-bráh-to) to
provide warmth and eloquence. Vibrato is a relatively quick (5 to 8 times
per second) modulation of either the pitch or the amplitude of the note
being sounded. Vibrato is often applied after a note starts and has
sounded for a time and may end before the note ends. Vibrato is usually
introduced gradually, in coordination with the shape of the note and has
an envelope different from the note shaping envelope of a note. Especially effective on longer melodic notes, it is used judiciously by the best
players to create warmth and persuasion and to bring out the line they
are playing from the general texture of the music.
Like the other interpretive elements, vibrato can create and enhance, or
destroy musical meaning depending on how it is applied: with
SuperConductor it can be globally and organically applied, giving it
appropriate organic variety suited to the particular music.
Play this example to demonstrate the use of vibrato.
1. Open the D:\MSC\MOZART\M3701 file.
2. Click on the Vibrato Icon.
3. Select Voice 1 and click on the Modify button.
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