This is a topic in music that gets me quite irritated at times. In modern Classical music, we have generally moved a long way away from the idea of music as speech and dance. We tend to be captured fully by the concept of music as beautiful sound... Which to me, is quite meaningless. It drives us away from the hard consonant sounds that make meaning of the vowels that form the tones of music and speech.
Think a bit about the way that you speak. In every language, you have the tones... The vowels. These are what make the bulk of the volume and timbre of speech. However, vowels by themselves can not impart the message... It would be like speaking with a mouth full of cotton wool.
The varied attacks of the consonants are what creates clarity and meaning to these tones. And it is the same with music. The varied attacks of each note define the life of the tone, from birth to death... And the varied nature of the attacks (consonants) form the relationships between each tone in a musical sequence of sentence. Within a 'word' or 'sentence'.
So, in modern Classical music, there is a an aversion to 'too much' attack. But, 'too much' is a dangerous word... Because in the end, everyone does less and less out of fear of being accused of having 'too much'!
So, that is my criticism of lack of harsh signs on a micro/sylaballic level.
On the larger level.... Well, the modern obsession (and by modern, I mean from the start of the 20th century) with beauty and the aversion to 'ugliness' has meant that we have tempered harsh signs and interpretations... Well, because it offends our delicate ideas of what 'classical' music should be. When, in truth, it was never the case....
Beauty only really has much meaning if there is a contrast... like all things. Puritan righteousness is a cancer, because none of us exist as paladins at all times. We are fallible, and so it makes no sense to have a communication form exist only as beauty... or inoffensiveness. Of course, there SHOULD be moments of beauty and all of that, but things can not always exist in perpetual niceness.
So, that leads me to some of the interpretations... which often take the edge off harsh and ugly sounds... but why? Is it for the recording microphones, is it because we are performing for our colleagues on stage, or is it some sort of vague consensus that "classical" music should be like that? In any event, it is quite distressing... as it really means that music loses its ability to communicate... and it just becomes a meaningless sort of mush. Inoffensive sound... but without meaning, and that means that there is no cause to listen to it.
I do think about these things... because now I am the teacher and master in some circles, and these are the critical ideas that I want to communicate. The technical and all of that is important... but ultimately, we are entertainers and communicators... and that demands that we employ all the tools at our disposal, not just the pretty ones. And that we understand how speech and dance work... and how they relate to our music, and not to play music as "high art" with no reference to any context.
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