Marcato
Encyclopedia
Marcato is a musical instruction
indicating a note
, chord
, or passage is to be played louder or more forcefully than surrounding music. The instruction may involve the word marcato itself written above or below the staff or it may take the form of an accent
mark, ^ , an open vertical wedge. This is essentially an intensified version of the regular accent indicated by >, an open horizontal wedge: It asks for a greater dynamic accent
. Like the regular accent, however, it is often interpreted to suggest a sharp attack tapering to the original dynamic, an interpretation which applies only to instruments, unlike the piano (for example), capable of altering the dynamic level of a single sustained pitch. According to author James Mark Jordan, "the marcato sound is characterised by a rhythmic thrust followed by a decay of the sound"
In jazz
big-band scores (idiomatically called charts) the marcato symbol often indicates a moderately accented short note, what in conventional music would be shown as a staccato dot below or above a regular accent mark.
The instruction marcato or marcatissimo (extreme marcato), among various other instructions, symbols, and expression marks may decide a string player to use martellato bowing
, depending on the musical context.
Music education
Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. It touches on all domains of learning, including the psychomotor domain , the cognitive domain , and, in particular and significant ways,the affective domain, including music appreciation and sensitivity...
indicating a note
Note
In music, the term note has two primary meanings:#A sign used in musical notation to represent the relative duration and pitch of a sound;#A pitched sound itself....
, chord
Chord (music)
A chord in music is any harmonic set of two–three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. These need not actually be played together: arpeggios and broken chords may for many practical and theoretical purposes be understood as chords...
, or passage is to be played louder or more forcefully than surrounding music. The instruction may involve the word marcato itself written above or below the staff or it may take the form of an accent
Accent (music)
In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note,either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark.Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase....
mark, ^ , an open vertical wedge. This is essentially an intensified version of the regular accent indicated by >, an open horizontal wedge: It asks for a greater dynamic accent
Dynamics (music)
In music, dynamics normally refers to the volume of a sound or note, but can also refer to every aspect of the execution of a given piece, either stylistic or functional . The term is also applied to the written or printed musical notation used to indicate dynamics...
. Like the regular accent, however, it is often interpreted to suggest a sharp attack tapering to the original dynamic, an interpretation which applies only to instruments, unlike the piano (for example), capable of altering the dynamic level of a single sustained pitch. According to author James Mark Jordan, "the marcato sound is characterised by a rhythmic thrust followed by a decay of the sound"
In jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
big-band scores (idiomatically called charts) the marcato symbol often indicates a moderately accented short note, what in conventional music would be shown as a staccato dot below or above a regular accent mark.
The instruction marcato or marcatissimo (extreme marcato), among various other instructions, symbols, and expression marks may decide a string player to use martellato bowing
Bow (music)
In music, a bow is moved across some part of a musical instrument, causing vibration which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, although some bows are used with musical saws and other bowed idiophones....
, depending on the musical context.