Richard said it was a scale gliss, and also that his client wanted a
verbal description. I think his client is being a bit of an idiot --
if you want to be extra-clear, the way to go is to put in the first
seven notes of the gliss as grace notes, and not all harpists can
read chord symbol indications. But sometimes, you have to let the
client be an idiot.
That said, I think David's suggestion of "Bb mixolydian" is actually
more accurate than "Bb7 gliss," since it is actually a scalar gliss,
not a chordal gliss.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 29 Oct 2007, at 7:49 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
If you want a scale gliss, then the pedal settings are taken care
of by the key signature, (Dn,Cn,Bb,Eb,Fn,Gn,Ab) which I assume is
three flats, so you don't have to mark anything at all except
starting and ending notes and the gliss itself.
I'm not sure that the words "Bb7 gliss" communicates anything
useful to the harpist that the pedal markings would not, though
some harpists can read chord symbols, and that would be placed
above the first note of the gliss.
Christopher
On 29-Oct-07, at 5:50 PM, Richard Huggins wrote:
Well, it was a hypothethical question, but good point. Let's say
it was the key of Eb, but we're on the bridge, and at the bridge's
end there's a Bb7 chord back to part 1, which will start on an Eb
chord. Between the lines you seem to be saying call it whatever
the underlying harmony is. Eh? (Personally I usually use a chord
gliss at these points, not a scale gliss, so I call it whatever
the chord actually is.)
--Richard
On Oct 29, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
What is the underlying harmony? Eb or Bb7?
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 29 Oct 2007, at 4:23 PM, Richard Huggins wrote:
If someone who knows would settle this for me, I'd appreciate it.
In, for example, the key of Eb and writing a gliss starting on
Bb and ending on Bb (essentially a Bb7 scale gliss), and where
written descriptions are being used alongside harp diagrams
(client's wishes), would the proper description be "Eb gliss"
or "Bb7 gliss"?
--Richard
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