John Howell wrote: > Where I would look first is New Grove, and second in the CPE Bach > book on keyboard playing. Also possible, "The Interpretation of > Early Music" by Robert Donnington. I'll take a look later the > afternoon if I have some free time. Excellent question.
I have the CPE book, but it has no index (at least in my edition, Michell trans., 1949), and the embellishments section appears to have nothing about it. A month's subscription to New Grove would eat up 1/3 of the commission (as would the gas to the nearest library that has Grove's), so that's out. If the Donnington book has something about it, that would be a great start -- as I said, it's for a new piece, not period playing. The traditional notation is either a tremolo or four dots over a note with a slur above them (the latter according to the Harvard Dictionary), but I'm thinking somewhere along the line some new notation might have been developed. I can find nothing in Karkoschka. Many thanks, Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
