Good Day. In the Baroque scores I am working on, quite frequently I will see a "fort." At first I just assumed this was a plain jane "forte." But this marking seems to follow immediately after a "pp" marking. So, I was speculating that "fort" really meant "ff" since I have yet to encounter this in Graupner's music. Since Darmstadt (as all of Germany during the early 18th century) had such a heavy influence of French, I was told that the marking "fort." could be the French for "loud."
The dynamic markings in scores and parts seems to be very inconsistent. What would your advice be on this? Should I just insert a "F" for all instances of "fort"? Thanks so much & have a great weekend! Kim -- 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
