At 11:53 AM -0400 6/05/02, Charles Small wrote: > A question of terminology for the Collective Wisdom: > > Whaddya call the accent mark that looks like a little v (sometimes >inverted)? >One place to see it is Bartok, Str.Quartet #5, 3rd mvt (Scherzo), cello >parrt, meas.30-41, but of course it occurs all over the place. > > My question is not how to reproduce it in Finale, or how to distinguish >it in performance from the ordinary accent mark, but simply Whaddya Call >the Darn Thing? (aside from caret, or inverted caret, or various >misspellings thereof, which can't be right since it doesn't indicate >anything missing or to be inserted...) Does it have a name? In any >language? > > Thanks, Ch.S.
I learned to call it a marcato. Jazzers call it a "hat" accent. However, jazzers also call a regular accent "one of these" (holding up two fingers in a 90 degree rotated peace sign) so I would take my last sentence with a grain of salt. 8-) Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
