Dear Mark, Thanks for the response, but what you described is in fact a simple grace note, where the grace note is played before the main note. However, acciaccatura is played differently: Let's say you have C & D. they are played at the same time. D is released immediately while C is held for the duration of the note. This way, you clearly hear the dissonance of the interval of a 2nd. Gardner Read explains it this way: "The acciaccatura is no ornament at all, but a manner of playing, then releasing part of, a chord in keyboard music. It has, then, no real connection with the ornament (appoggiatura and grace note)under consideration." This technic is used widely in Persian classical music on the piano, but it has never been written, always improvised. There are several weird things we do while we try to imitate the sound of the ornaments played on ethnic instruments, such as Tar, Setar and Santur. There are standards of notating for these instruments. But they would mean not! hing if written for piano. I have found that one of the ornaments fits exactly Read's explanation of acciaccatura. I just have to find a way to notate it so that it would make sense to a Western trained pianist. gka
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark D Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Acciaccatura > > On May 23, 2004, at 2:48 PM, musighi wrote: > > > Does anyone know how you notate an Acciaccatura? Gardner Read in his > > Manual of Modern Practice (page 241) describes the way you play it, > > but he does not include an example of the notation. I have searched > > and searched and have not found the answer in other reference books. I > > hope some of you notation experts can guide me. I appreciate your > > input. > > Unless you're talking about something more complicated that I don't > know about, an acciaccatura is simply written as a grace note with a > slash through it. > > mdl > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
