On 23 May 2004 at 23:19, Owain Sutton wrote: > Mark D Lew wrote: > > > > 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. > > It's wishful thinking that it was that simple - for some people, > acciaccatura and grace note are synonymous. For others, grace notes > are appogiaturas. Others slash appogiaturas. Many players pay no > attention to the presence or absence of slashings. > > The only solution is to establish a house style, eg 'crushed' notes > are slashed and accented notes are not, and stick to it stubbornly.
There's also a historical issue involved. The concept of the "grace note" didn't really exist in the Classical period as it is taught today. Appogiaturas were notated with an appropriate rhythmic value for the little note, and a slashed 8th note was really a shorthand for a 16th note, a clear way of writing a small note without having to nest tiny little flags. A 32-note appogiatura was notated as an 8th note with two slashes. So, in a Classical period piece, you could have both a non-slashed 8th note (for an 8th-note appogiatura), a slashed 8th note (for a 16th-note appogiatura) and even double-slashed 8th notes (for a 32nd-note appogiatura). So far as I am aware, Finale can't do the double slash. But I avoid the slashes pretty much entirely when creating editions, since readers bring assumptions about them that are wrong -- I just notate the appogiatura as the note value indicated in the original notation (if a single slashed 8th note, I put in a 16th note with no slash). So, it's really not a matter of house style, after all. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
