At 11:16 AM +0200 6/15/11, Marcello Noia wrote:
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>Oggetto: FinWin 2k11 - strange Hp rendition of ' (breath) sign
>Data: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:45:56 +0200
>Mittente: Marcello Noia <[email protected]>
>Rispondi-a: [email protected]
>A: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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>Why Finale stops a bit the time of a piece when the breath sign is
>placed after a note?
>And more, it happens only when breath is placed on every voice of the
>score in the same position (SATB).
>It should only cut a fixed percentual duration of the note without
>influencing the time.
>Does exist any "academic" meaning to make Finale programmers introducing
>this
>feature in the breath sign?
Unfortunately, yes. The sign (comma-shaped) has two meanings. The
first is a simple breath mark, which should not change the meter and
should steal time from the preceding note, just as you say. But the
second is a kind of caesura, or silent tenuto, often inserted just
before the final note or final measure of a piece in performance
(whether called for or not), and conventionally indicated by a comma,
although the double lines ("railroad tracks") would be more accurate.
Apparently the programmers programmed the second meaning only.
>And, by the way, how do I tell Finale not to do so?
That I'm afraid I do not know.
John
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