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dry, plain or restrained in character; write trocken in full
How is trocken played?
Give the passage a dry, matter-of-fact character without unnecessary bloom. Context may support an understated tone, limited resonance or restrained rhetoric, but trocken alone does not require no warmth, no vibrato, no rubato or no expression. In Schoenberg’s Erwartung the word is printed separately beside ruhig and ohne espress., proving that calmness and absence of expression are additional instructions rather than automatic meanings of trocken. Distinguish this character entry from the technical duplicate, where damping and release are the primary focus.
How does trocken sound?
A plain, sober, un-resonant character: terse and understated rather than warm or lush.
In context
As expressive language, German trocken can suggest a dry, plain or sober delivery and remains related to secco/sec. Schoenberg’s complete phrase “ruhig, ohne espress., trocken” supplies the strongest scope control: the three properties are separately named. No contraction met the threshold, so the full word remains public notation.
Equivalent terms
- IT secco
- FR sec
- EN dry
- DA tørt