what's the antonym for percussive/percussion?

>>8297115
melodic if we're talking about music

>>8297118

that implies that percussion is associated with dissonance or atonality

Annebolin

>>8297115
Snake

>>8297115
unpercussive

>>8297124
yeah, it's not really the most common usage, though in a way, you could even say that it is associated with dissonance

in a different way, if you meant something like "sounds with low attack/with an attack onset", then I don't really know what you could use short of "unpercussive" or just describing the phenomenon with a full sentence

...or maybe something like "mellow sounds"?

>>8297212
Compressed, if looking at technical music production a compressor tool softens the initial strike of an instrument through time related dampening.

>>8297212

>I don't really know what you could use short of "unpercussive" or just describing the phenomenon with a full sentence

yeah :/

perhaps there's a word i a language other than english

>>8297224
doesn't a compressor just reduce the amount of dynamics, i.e. turns up the more silent sounds and turns down the more loud ones?

>>8297115
Droning. Arrhythmic depending on context too I guess.

>>8297233
Yep, still wrong.
>>8297212
This is also wrong, though most percussion instruments are technically dissonant (in that they generate a tone cluster)
>>8297115
I don't believe there is one, can't think of one for the verb of striking or hitting either.

>>8297233
Yeah I think that guy's thinking of "attack" or similar as you might find on a synthetic. It's how quickly the sound "comes in"

>>8297242
Percussive music is not necessarily rhythmic either, wrong.

>>8297249
>This is also wrong, though most percussion instruments are technically dissonant (in that they generate a tone cluster)
so how is it wrong? that's exactly what I meant, the joke is just on me being autistic and assuming that that's the meaning that OP wanted

>>8297261
I guess it is the closest, but it is not a true antonym as there is also of course instruments like the vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel or even the piano, which are percussive but also tuned.

maybe legato?

>>8297269
No, that is the antonym of staccato.

>>8297281
It could work in a less-technical context though.
Staccato is essentially "playing notes percussively"

Fluid

Unabrupt

>>8297265
drums are tuned

>>8297115
Anti-percussive, anti-percussion.

boom, roasted

why the fuck do you need this word, OP.
For what purpose.

>>8297284
A percussive sound does in no way denote duration like staccato does. Staccato = short sound, while percussion = sound produced by striking

>>8297299
Yes, to a fundamental, but striking a drum produces a tone cluster instead of the (more) harmonic tone produced by other instruments.

Of course playing for example a string instrument pizzicato produces a similar effect really, but it is more a question of gradation rather than absolutes.

Dampened?

>>8297306

but would you not have to play a percussive instrument legato to get a non-staccato (percussive) sound from it?

>>8297361
No, legato implies exaggerated drawn out sound, I could for example strike a cymbal once and let it last the full duration of the written note, thus not being staccato.

>>8297367

i'm confused, how could you strike a symbol and hold a tone for a set duration of time. is that possible to do percussively? would you not have to bow or brush the cymbal?

>>8297381
No of course not, the cymbal sound is sustained unless interrupted.

>>8297388

explain, it doesn't just go on it settles after a while

>>8297394
Yes, of course, but what I meant is letting the cymbal ring out or to a set duration (quarter note etc.) rather than staggered (i.e. staccato) notes.

>>8297381
for a shorter, staccato duration, you choke it with your hand or against your body

>>8297402

>letting the cymbal ring out or to a set duration

is there a concise word for this action?

i.e. "i want you to _____ the cymbal"

>>8297441
It rarely needs to be specified, but sometimes one notes it as "let ring" in scores.

>>8297255
any sound that breaks up silence is rhythmic, even what is commonly referred to as "arhythmic"

>>8297622
that sounds like an unorthodox stance

>>8297635
It didn't sound like anything, unless you read what I wrote out loud to yourself

>>8297639
>he doesn't subvocalize

>>8297124
It is though. At least in a musical/audio technical context.

>>8297622
True, but then we are getting into semantics and beyond the realm of music into acoustics.

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>>8297115
Antonym doesn't sound quite right in this context, OP.