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How is klingen lassen played?
After the attack, leave the relevant resonance sounding: avoid touching harp or guitar strings, keep a cymbal or metal percussion instrument free, or use held keys or the appropriate pedal on piano and vibraphone when that is how the passage is sustained. Mahler scores print klingen lassen in full, and the instruction can function like French laissez vibrer or Italian lasciar vibrare without becoming the expansion of their l.v. abbreviation. It is the local counterpart of abdämpfen and Saiten abdämpfen when those commands stop the same sound. The phrase does not by itself mean that every other note or pedal state continues indefinitely.
How does klingen lassen sound?
A tone that rings out and fades gradually, keeping the instrument's full natural resonance.
In context
Klingen lassen is German for 'let it ring'; Mahler glossaries and scores use the full phrase for undamped continuation. It belongs to the same practical let-ring family as laissez vibrer and lasciar vibrare, but no exact German text abbreviation met the three-source rule, and the instrument and later cutoff determine how long and by what means the resonance continues.
Equivalent terms
- IT lasciare vibrare
- FR laisser vibrer
- EN let ring
- EN let vibrate
- DA lad klinge