hello patrick, fort in french may mean as in italian molto. so pp fort probably means molto pianissimo. any francophone please confirm this. thanks, marcelo
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Patrick Clow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 1:59 PM Subject: [Finale] OT: "fort." in baroque manuscripts versus modern "F" > 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 > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
