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It is one thing on a modern piano to choose a loud dynamic more or less arbitrarily to match the energy of the cello playing full out.
Even if sf produces a slightly louder dynamic because of the accent, it does not open the door to a very loud dynamic within an atmosphere of pp. That Mahler wanted the note played softly is clearly the view of Mahler scholars.
Most fans had no idea who Chuck Berry was, but loved the Beatles' loud, dynamic cover of his 1957 hit "Rock and Roll Music".
Considered the opposite of PP, use a lot of pressure for this loud dynamic.
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Birds & Bees is ADHD grunge: restless, curious, with a quiet-loud dynamic, like early-70s Saturday morning TV show The Banana Splits smeared with Pearl Jam.
In blue pencil, he wrote slightly louder dynamic marks for two of the string sections: mp (mezzo piano: a bit louder than p) for the cellos and mf (mezzo forte: a bit quieter than forte) for the basses.
The album includes heavier material, and prominently features the band's trademark quiet-loud dynamic.
I couldn't get enough of Nirvana's loud-quiet-loud dynamic on tunes like "Lithium," "In Bloom" "All Apologies" and "Heart-Shaped Box".
The Pixies' influence looms large, with CTE wallowing in their predecessor's loud-quiet dynamic on both Aberdeen and Around My Head, before singer Matt Shultz faithfully reprises all of Black Francis's vocal tics during Japanese Buffalo.
In both incarnations of the Rollins Band, Rollins combined spoken word with his traditional vocal style in songs such as "Liar" (the song begins with a one-minute spoken diatribe by Rollins), as well as barking his way through songs (such as "Tearing" and "Starve") and employing the loud-quiet dynamic.
And yes, the group's loud-quiet-loud delivery, boy/girl dynamic only fuels comparisons to The Pixies, The Smashing Pumpkins, or a host of other pre-millenium bands.
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