John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 11:53 AM +0000 12/21/05, Javier Ruiz wrote:
>>Hola a todos,
>>
>>Is there an standard wide vibrato sign?
>Speaking as a string player rather than a
>notation specialist, my answer would be "no." In
>fact there is no vibrato sign, period. If you
>want something non-standard, please explain it in
>words, because any sign you make up will be
>unknown to any player confronted by it.
>'Way back in some 17th and 18th century ornament
>lists, I believe that there were signs used to
>indicate vibrato,
In Spohr's "Violin School", which he wrote in 1832, he discusses
vibrato, which in my English translation (Boosey & Co, c. 1880, p.163)
is translated "tremolo". He states that the 18th C. sign was a row of
dots (..........). He distinguishes four varieties, the slow, which he
notates as a zig-zag with a large pitch, the fast, a zig-zag with a
small pitch, the accelerating, large pitch followed by small, and the
slackening, small pitch followed by large, though he insists that the
speed changes must be gradual. He is most concerned that vibrato is an
embellishment, to be used only when reinforcement is required. I have
never seen any of these signs in a modern score or part.
--
Ken Moore
Musician and engineer
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