> >By the way, am I hallucinating or are marcato markings like [the hat >accent] unusual in piano music? After half a century of looking at >piano music, I don't remember seeing those, but I do remember (and >find, now that I look) countless > marks, of course. I use marcatos >mostly in wind parts, but I don't think I've ever put one in a piano >score.... live and learn, I guess. > >Linda Worsley >
It's certainly less common than the usual accent, but not at all rare or unorthodox. I have in front of me the Dover volume of Gottschalk reprints, and he appears to use the hat accent exclusively, and in almost every piece. Other 19th-c. composers, I'm sure, use both types together. Like many of the standard articulation signs, this one has changed its meaning over time. It now means a heavy, violent accent, somewhere between > and sfz, but before ca. 1850 it meant an accent that was leaned into rather than punched, therefore a *less* violent effect than the >. The hat symbol is in fact a graphic representation of a swell, just as the > is a short diminuendo. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
