I am quite sure it was you, who wrote on the HP interpreting the hanging comma as a caesura beyond control from the Finale users.
I do not disagree on the comma being a phrasing mark, where the previous note is shortened rather than a delay of pulse. However Finale has allocated the keyboard shortcut of B to the comma, which I clearly read as short for Breathing. Hence I see a schizophrenic element in Finale’s approach to the comma. Breath mark in the context of the keyboard shortcut, caesura in the context of HP. In the ongoing project I have a caesura, but I mark it with the double slash, which in my view pretty much excludes any misinterpretation. Per tradition I have marked the phrasing by the comma as an articulation. I will see if I can change my modus to using the comma as an expression. Klaus PS: In one of my older projects for brass band two sections (cornets and alto horns) played together and shared the phrasing marks, except at the double bar at the end of the 16-bar section. The cornets rested after the double bar whereas the horns continued, so I only put commas in the horn parts. That lead to a self-alleged brass band authority scolding me for not using uniform phrasing marks. Sorry, but putting phasing marks right in front of a multi-measure rest? I would have found that very odd. I am aware that the two instrument sections had to coordinate their releases, but I trusted (and still trust) the musicianship of the players in that matter. >________________________________ > From: John Howell <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] > >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 > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
