On 22 Oct 2007, at 1:43 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
Hi all:
In my scores, I tend to avoid abbreviations; e.g. "pizzicato." Now
in the
manuscript sources I am using, I'll see the word used either with no
abbreviation, or
sometimes as "pizz." I tend to keep things uniform, so I'll spell
it out.
But a friend told me the standard is just "pizz." or "arco" not
"col arco."
Your friend is of course correct, and furthermore the standard forms
("pizz.", "arco", "cresc." "dim." etc.) are much easier and faster
for players to read and process than "pizzicato," "col aco",
"crescendo", "diminuendo", etc. It's *very* nonstandard to write them
out in full and under normal circumstances there's no good reason to
do so.
- Darcy
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