On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One thing that I wondered about a while back, but didn't get any
> response from: I've seen music that uses a "broken bar", in the form
> of short vertical dashes (either between the staff lines or crossing
> them). This is useful, for instance, in an urtext edition in which
> you'd like to cut the bars in half for readability, but you still
> want to indicate which bar lines were in the original. It's also used
I've also seen "broken slurs" as well; they indicate that the player has the
option of playing the note as legato. Other editions I read use the slur
sign between parentheses to indicate the same; not to mention (mp), (fff)
and some such. Broken slurs would be a good thing to implement.
Later,
Guido =8-)
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