At 3:25 PM -0500 3/4/06, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Mar 4, 2006, at 1:23 PM, David Froom wrote:
a style
manual from Schirmer that is also used by Peters (and others, I assume).
They say that expression marks ALWAYS go below the staff.
To me this is flatly wrong. The only exceptions would be when an
expression modifies a dynamic mark (as: p e dolce) or in a vertical
spacing emergency.
My reaction was the same, but I have another question. Our community
band is preparing a concert program that includes several pieces in
which all the accents are above the notes, even though (in the tuba
part) the vast majority of notes are stems up on the staff. Is this
an acceptable variation, or a particular publisher's aberration?
It's a bit disconcerting to read, which tells me it is not standard
practice.
John
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