At 5:41 AM -0400 11/3/12, David H. Bailey wrote:
>Regarding how the humans interpret the marks, you could simply add a
>text box above the first measure explaining that the breath marks are
>just that and not to be interpreted as being caesurae.
>
At 9:44 AM +0000 11/3/12, Peter Taylor wrote:
>The convention for a breath mark, as far as I'm aware, is to use a tick
>("check" in USA). I first came across this when I was learning recorder at
>primary school many years ago, and I still pencil it before long phrases to
>this day.
>
At 10:03 AM +0000 11/3/12, Lawrence Yates wrote:
>In hand-written music I've always used a tick to indicate a breath mark and
>reserved the comma to imply a slight break in pulse.
Clearly there is a lack of unanimity! I have
seen the "tick" used (a checkmark), but would
never use it myself. And while there's nothing
wrong with thinking of the comma as a "breath
mark" (which is certainly is for both singers and
wind players), I think of it as more of a
phrasing mark, since for string players or
keyboard players it involves a "lift" off the
string or off the key.
But in any case neither mark should EVER be
interpreted as a caesura, tenuto, or fermata.
Any experienced musician, whether singer or
instrumentalist, knows to take the necessary time
out of the PREVIOUS note, not the following one.
(And any inexperienced musician needs to be
TAUGHT that interpretation!) So HP does NOT do
what any reasonable musician would do.
John
(Sibelius, by the way, provides a comma mark, a
tick, a caesura, a thick caesura (which I've only
seen used ONCE and really hated), and more
fermatas than anyone should ever need in
conventional music.)
--
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