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46 ACCENTUATION IN PRACTICE
Ex. 2.23.Schubert, String Trio D. 581/ii
only the first of six notes’ receives an accent (Ex. 2.25.) 115 Gottfried Weber, on the other hand, somewhat pedantically
insisting on the metrical accentuation of sextuplets, instructed that they should be accented in groups of two notes.
(Ex. 2.26) 116
Final Notes
The rule that musical units should generally begin powerfully and progressively decline in force, was outlined by Crelle,
as mentioned earlier, and many other musicians of the period. The majority view implies that in most contexts the final
note of a phrase, though receiving the appropriate metrical accent, would be unlikely to have an expressive accent. But
an occasional dissenting opinion can be found; Kalkbrenner, for instance, observed that ‘the first and last notes of a
passage should be more energetic than the rest’. 117 Hummel's examples of appropriate accentuation show some final
notes gently accented, some more forcibly accented and some without any particular accent. 118
115 A. E. Müller's Klavier- und Fortepiano Schule (Jena, 1804), 16. This book is an expanded edition of Löhlein's Klavierschule.
116
Theory, i. 90.
117
A New Method, 12.
118
A Complete, III, 54–9.