Hi!

Just want to find out the different interpretations of a section in Grade 6 Piano Exam Pc, 'Prayer of Matador'.
The second line ( think it's Bar 5 and 6, sorry I don't have the score with me now as I am using the computer in the library), has a motif with repeated notes with a curved line that looks like a tie over the bar line. Do you ask your pupils to observe that first note as a tied note or as a note to be played?

I initially took it as a note to be played due to the tenuto sign. Then, the exam CD's performance took it as a tied note. Anthony Williams was in Spore for PDP in Mar this year, he played that note, thus not taking it as a tied note. I am now all confused. Are both interpretations acceptable? Has anyone entered your pupil for G6 exam this year or last year using this piece? What were the examiner's remarks?

I played this for the exam & played the notes as tied. Mark was 28 - no comments about those notes.

i am tying it when my exam comes up... if that helps any

Thanks for your replies!

If this were for violin, say, I suppose the stress mark would be repeated on a tied note, to make it clear that the extra bow-pressure was meant to be maintained throughout the tied notes. Although this wouldn't make any difference on the piano, it's probably standard notation. Also, to legato them would involve pretty nifty pedalling, and if they're tied on the official C.D., then I'd go for it.
I wonder what the matador's prayer was. That he be spared retribution for causing the toture and death of an innocent animal, or that if he were gored, it might not be in toooo painful a place!