Striving for continuity, Stokowski elongates note values and violates rests to bind a phrase with its neighbor.
Shorter note values were also introduced, and the old, longer ones became obsolete.
At one point in "La Cathédrale Engloutie," Debussy nearly doubles the written tempo in relation to the note values around it.
Solo performers find it curiously difficult to play a musical line simply and grammatically -- keeping the tempo, observing note values and moving to the correct rhythm.
The wind and brass soloists were not bad at all; the strings as well, unless asked to articulate small note values cleanly and clearly.
There is a lovely grammar to his playing: note values and rhythms are correctly spelled, but it is the rightness of his punctuation that gives them life.
In the application of rubato, the written note values must not be disregarded, and the performer eventually returns to the strict underlying rhythm from which the rubato deviated.
The first group comprises thick bronze slabs (saron demung, saron barung, saron panerus) on trough resonators playing the theme usually in regular note values without ornamentation.
He played alto saxophone with a brilliant, pure tone, stating even small note values with clarity, and he also played clarinet and tenor saxophone on occasion.
Clues to this correct style ranged from the title of the piece to the tempo indication to the kinds of note values employed.
For his part, Le Jeune created settings of vers mesurés (Classical-inspired French poetry) in which long and short syllables were matched by long and short note values.
