Despite its academic articulation, that is a highly revolutionary doctrine.
There are six basic manners of articulation that can be used at these places of articulation: stop, fricative, approximant, trill, tap, and lateral.
Anna Vinnitskaya brings to both works a clarity of articulation that makes the passages high up the keyboard sound weightless, like something Mendelssohn would write for Puck or Titania.
It is the triumph of confident articulation that sets these comedies and their heroines apart and turns them into a genre.
What they all demand, and what Ms. Oppens supplied amply, is the kind of bright timbre and sharp articulation that will keep the sometimes dense textures transparent.
The Takacs players, fully exercising the right to interpret Bartok's laconic markings, shape every phrase toward a dramatic peak, so that the music loses any trace of the oppressively flat articulation that often marred earlier performances.
In both the Mozart and the Hertel concertos, he played with a sharp-edged articulation that sliced through the string textures, and Le Nuove Musiche played with a deftness and clarity perfectly suited to Mr. Bezuidenhout's approach.
"We wanted to create a collector-doll feel," said Mr. Varadi, who gave the Liv dolls glasslike eyes, glossy hair, interchangeable wigs and 14 points of articulation that make them easy to dress.
It might be time, in other words, for him to heed the promptings of his characters and liberate still further the energy and articulation that so delight us in his prose.
Imagine all the silent seeking for that spiritual something beyond articulation that went on here, fulfilled and not, replaced now by middle-aged men trying, as we say, to get open.
Mr. Abraham is a beautiful dancer — unpredictable and spry, with the kind of articulation that is likely to become only more refined and subtle with age — but his packed productions are somewhat unconvincing.
