I have tried establishing scores from old, that is pre-1900, band parts made available in scans by the US-LOC. Also there inconsistency is a problem. However comparative reading of parts often is helpful.
Maybe not very scholarly, but just down to earth practical, I would like to know the articulations in the other parts for the two beats in question. My immediate suspicion is that the harmony changes between them, or that the same chord is redistributed in a way leaving only this part repeating the same note. I might guess that the moving parts have these two beats slurred. Klaus >________________________________ >From: Kim Patrick Clow <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 11:26 PM >Subject: Re: [Finale] O.T. 18th century notation question > >Thanks for all the help everyone. > >I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but Peter Brown's thematic >index has this symbol as tied notes with staccato markings above the notes. > >I'm working on a source from Florence, Italy, and there are only two others >(one is in Vienna, and another in the Czech Republic). Maybe the other >sources are more clear. > >But I showed the screen shot to Dr. Paul Bryan (editor of the Wanhal >thematic index) and he said that the Florence source was in a Vienna >copyist's handwriting). > >And on a side note: I can't tell you how frustrating the parts are-- the >inconsistencies on everything- dynamic marks, articulations. I don't know >how the musicians >performed the music in really acceptable manner, but I know, performance >standards were much much different back then. > >Thanks again! > >Kim > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
