I placed a sample at http://www.bytenet.net/kpclow/finale/symbol.jpg
It maybe slow to load, but it's there. Thanks so much, Kim On 8/9/06, Martin Banner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Without actually seeing the manuscript with the symbol you describe, the closest thing I can think of is playing the whole note or half note as consecutive 16th notes...again, I'd want to actually see the manuscript with a visual example of this symbol to be certain. Martin On Aug 9, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > I am hoping maybe someone can help with this. > > In some manuscripts, typically in the flute sections, there are two > lines by either whole notes or half notes just to the left of the note > head: "//". > > In a recording I have of one piece (and I have a copy of the > manuscript), they play this marking as a "fluttering" effect, very > similiar to a bird call. However, the same marking is in string parts. > > A flute player who is a friend of mine told me that the typical > ormentation for such a "fluttering" effect was two slash marks above > the note head, but not beside it. And in English harpsichord music, > there was also such a mark to indicate an extended trill--but again > that was above the notehead, not beside it. > > How would you notate such a "fluttering" in modern notation? Extended > trill? > > Thanks so much for any help you can offer! > > -- > Kim Patrick Clow > "There's really only two types of music: good and bad." ~ Rossini > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > Martin Banner [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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