At 8:24 PM +0200 10/3/11, SN jef chippewa wrote: >is there a "proper" way to write this? since the design is like the >lower case script "f" it would seem to be most appropriate to write >it with lowercase, but can't seem to find any clear indication of the >right way to notate this. > >in german i have the same question (am translating a text), there is >also greater use of upper case (for proper nouns etc.) but i have >also seen it written in german with lowercase...
I doubt that you'll find any particular authority for this, just common practice. And whenever I've seen it I didn't pay any attention to how it was written. Probably the best sources would be high-class coffee-table books that show plates of top quality museum violins and have written descriptions of them. In German I would think F-Loch, since it's a compound noun. I agree with Klaus that the iconographic value of the lower case f (or possible the long ess, for that matter) would be overwritten by the grammatical use of upper case for nouns. In English the same rule doesn't apply. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
