I have never come across a triangle with a dash under it. What does it mean?
I've gone on record before as opposing the use of the dash or hyphen, which I realize is fully established in jazz notation, because it can have two different meanings and can therefore be ambiguous. For example, C-7(-5), in which the first hyphen indicates a minor 7th chord while the second indicates an altered (flat) 5th. This particular case isn't especially ambiguous, but I can picture others which might be.
Most of my use of chord symbols has been in commercial music (read "pop" if you're so inclined) rather than jazz, but no jazz player has ever been confused with alphanumeric symbols in my writing. Clarity above all (which means that it DOES make a difference knowing whom you're writing for!).
John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition of jazz musicians. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
