On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Pierre Bailleul wrote:
Dear list, Do you know the meaning of the indication inside the bracket : "Quarter note" = 108 (swing "Quarter note" s) What is the french translation? Thanks for your aid. Pierre.
It looks to me like a rather ungrammatical way of saying that the quarter note should be swung, rather than the more usual eighth note swung.
I would certainly question this, though, as the tempo is very slow to be swinging quarter notes (when it does happen, it is usually at break-neck tempos), plus the indication of the tempo as quarter = 108 rather than half note = 54 is contrary to the usual swing feel. Was the indication written by someone who speaks English natively? It doesn't look like that to me. At that tempo I would almost certainly assume that it is the eighth notes that would be swung.
The French translation would be (with corrections for bad punctuation, but not corrected for questionable content or meaning):
La noire = 108 (les noires swinguées) Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
