On Jun 22, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jun 21, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Jamin Hoffman wrote:
Dear all -
Is the proper way to represent unmeasured tremolos three slashes across the note, regardless of the value of the note?
Yes. This same notation is also used for wind fluttertongue and percussion rolls. Because of the possibility of confusion, music composed in the last 50 years has tended to avoid the *measured* tremolo abbreviation altogether, writing out passages of fast repeated notes in full.
Andrew,
You know I respect the heck out of you, but none of the references I've found agrees with you (your first word, the rest is sound). They all say that beamed notes get their beams subtracted from the number of slashes, so that the sum of beams and slashes is always three. This means adding TWO slashes to eighth notes, and only ONE to sixteenths, as I said in my last message.
George Heussenstamm and Clinton Roemer say this.
The one dissenting opinion I can find is Kurt Stone, who says that the number of slashes should be a number indicating a fast rhythm, so he would use 2 in a fast tempo and 4 in a slow tempo where they might be confused with 32nds. But even he doesn't say three slashes regardless of note value.
I don't have the Ross book, so I couldn't say what he says.
Christopher
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