On 24 May 2004 at 19:18, Owain Sutton wrote: > Lars-Anders Carlsson wrote: > > > Er, in my book acciaccatura is not a modern practice, it is rather > > old ;-). And there are a couple of ways to notate it already, none > > of which has been mentioned so far. The notation style I prefer is a > > line between the notes in the chord/interval that are supposed to be > > filled out. > > (<http://homepage.mac.com/lac/finale/acciaccatura.gif>Se exemple) > > > > Since the notation is not self evident to the player unfamiliar with > > old keyboard practice, an explanation is always polite. > > I'd have summed it up as "not self evident to the player", period. > The worst thing to do when symbols are routinely interpreted in a > variety of ways is to introduce yet more symbols indicating the same > thing.
"Introduce?" This is not at all a new symbol. And I would argue it has nothing whatsoever to do with the acciaccatura -- it is simply an older method of notating a rolled chord. So far as I know, it was the only notation Mozart ever used for indicating rolled chords (in both fast and slow tempos). -- 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
