On 1 Sep 2011 at 14:43, Steve Larsen wrote: > I've never seen anything quite like it. My guess from the context is > that it may be an eccentric way of notating a hooked bowing.
There wasn't any such practice of indicated precise bowing in the period. It's either one of the two suggestions: 1. some form of tremolo/bow vibrato (the latter not at all unheard of, though most common in the viol repertory, where the underhand bow makes it possible to vary the tension on the bow hair). 2. a notational alternative for staccato under a single bow (which really wasn't common at all in our modern notation until the 1790s). I would lean towards the former, but that's because of my orientation as a viol player. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
