I don’t agree that hairpins and cresc. are always interchangable. In some styles of music a hairpin will take you up or down by one dynamic marking, whereas ‘cresc.’ or ‘dim.’ can be used to move smoothly from any mark to any other. This allows distinctions that get messy if the two are collated, for example pp < ff when what you require is pp < p crescendo, then immediately f.
Steve P. > On 23 Mar 2015, at 20:55, Patrick Sheehan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > COMPLETELY disagree. > > PUT the dots for all staccato notes and NEVER use the "cresc", > "decresc"...they are always easily missed / immediately forgotten. Hairpins > never fail. > > Patrick J. M. Sheehan > > P. S. Music > > [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 1:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Finale] Changing slurred 8ths to 8th-16th > > In my experience, when there is a way to indicate something with text or > with music notation, music notation wins every time. Musicians for some > reason I don't quite understand have more trouble understanding "cresc." > than they do understanding a hairpin, for example. Dots over the notes WILL > be played short 100% of the time, whereas the indication "stacc." may or may > not be correctly executed on sight reading. For that reason alone, i would > choose a musical notation over a text indication. > > Christopher > > > On Sun Mar 22, at SundayMar 22 12:00 PM, timothy price wrote: > >> Just finished reading "Score Rehearsal Preparation" by Gary Stith in which > he remarks about how composers might simply use text to clarify any possible > ambiguity in the score. He invites text notes so that there is no time > wasted in discussion of the intent of the score. .. simply tell us what you > intended. This can be a few words on the staff of instrument notation, or at > the end of the score in a section of issues about the score and how to play > it. Seems good to me. >> >> tim >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 22, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: >> >>>>> >>>>> Why not just say "non portato" and leave it at that >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
