John Howell wrote:
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
Articulations should (in my not-so-humble opinion) always be placed next
to the notehead, NOT the stem.
And especially tuba parts, where they go so low below the staff, that
forcing one's eyes to focus on such wide spacing is begging for them to
ignore the articulations in an effort to get the pitch and the rhythm
correct.
--
David H. Bailey
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