On 23 May 2004 at 20:35, Philip Aker wrote: > And that certainly distinguishes it as a category differing from > appogiature. For example, look at Chopin: Grand Valse Brillante in Eb, > Opus 18, Bb minor section where he's hopping about the f note on the > top of the treble staff in the first two measures. I'd say those are > acciaccature being notated and to strike them before the beat. Would > anyone play those as on-the-beat appogiature? Consider that there's a > Ped. at the beginning of most of those measures.
No, of course no one plays them on the beat, because the piece was not written in the period in which such notation was played on the beat. It's called awareness of historical style, and it's something that one takes for granted in any finished musician. Putting a note into an edition to that effect would be insulting to the vast majority of musicians, and probably confusing to the uninitiated. Either your audience reads music and has an understanding of musical or it doesn't. If you know the latter is lacking, then you're creating a pedagogical edition, which is a completely different set of issues. -- 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
