RAMEAU - Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin | Guitar | PDF

« […] The effect that we experience in the twelfth measure of the reprise of the Enharmonic will perhaps not initially be to everyone's taste; However, we become accustomed to it as long as we give ourselves to it, and we even feel all the beauty of it when we have overcome the first repugnance that the lack of habit can cause in this case. The harmonic which causes this effect is not thrown at random; it is founded on reasons, and authorized by nature itself: for connoisseurs it is the most piquant thing; but the execution must support the intention of the Author, by softening the touch, and by suspending the Coulés more and more as we approach the striking feature, where we must stop for a moment. moment, […]  » Jean-Philippe Rameau, Préface, Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin