On 30 Dec 2006 at 16:24, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > On 12/30/06, keith helgesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could it be an indication to 'staccato' the last note? i.e. to leave > > a miniscule gap between the note marked and the next one- play as > > semiq,semiqrest. > > I have the sense it could mean pay the tied notes, as a dagger.
If it's anything, it's a double stroke -- the "dagger" is a 19th- century notational invention. And it was perfectly normal to put a single stroke over the tied note to show that the end of the tied note was to be clipped, so I don't see why there should be any need for a *double* stroke. > But > then in the instance where the two eighth notes are tied, in the same > measure, why didn't Graupner just use a quarter note? I don't see any cases where a quarter note would be justified. It's 12/8, and using a quarter note starting on the 3rd subdivision of the beat would be counter to all notational practices for writing compound meters that I've ever encountered, except where the intention was to indicate a major displacement of the beat. I think it's some French-derived ornament, but don't know enough about it to say. I seem to recall encountering something like this somewhere in my work with early 18th-century French MSS. > I'm annotating the marking in my edition exactly as it appears in the > manuscripts, but just not sure what to say in the critical notes, > other than "I don't know what this symbol means." > > > Thanks! > > Kim Patrick Clow > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
