Tenuto

Tenuto (Italian, past participle of tenere, "to hold") is a direction used in musical notation. It is one of the earliest directions to be used in music notation, as Notker of St. Gall (c.840 – 912) discusses the use of the letter t in plainsong notation as meaning trahere vel tenere debere in one of his letters.

The precise meaning of tenuto is contextual: it can mean either hold the note in question its full length (or longer, with slight rubato), or play the note slightly louder. In other words, the tenuto mark may alter either the dynamic or the duration of a note. Either way, the marking indicates that a note should receive emphasis.

The mark's meaning may be affected when it appears in conjunction with other articulations. When it appears with a staccato dot, it means non legato or detached. When it appears with an accent mark, because the accent indicates dynamics, the tenuto means full or extra duration.

Notation

Tenuto can be notated three ways:

  • The word tenuto written above the passage to be played tenuto.
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    Sometimes

    by: T.n.t.

    I don't like to be alone
    With thoughts that don't belong
    To me
    And I can swim inside your head
    For hours till I'm fed
    With all your insecurities
    It takes me forever and a night
    To get back in my own fight
    Chorus:
    Sometimes, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me
    There's some kind of lie, that I just can't see
    And sometimes, I don't wanna be me
    I am suddenly aware
    Of what you're doing here
    And why I hate myself today
    It burns a hole through everything
    A word can leave a stain
    That doesn't always wash away
    It takes me places I don't wanna go
    It's not the me that I know
    Chorus:
    Sometimes, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me
    There's some kind of lie, that I just don't believe
    And sometimes, I don't wanna be me
    Oh, it takes me places I don't wanna go
    It's not what I know
    Chorus:
    Sometimes, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me
    There's some kind of lie, that I just can't see
    And sometimes, I don't wanna be me
    Oh, sometimes I get in my way with the little things you say
    It makes me believe that I'm not ok




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