On Aug 9, 2022, at 08:26, Kieren MacMillan <kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> wrote: > > Hi all, > > The big difference, in my mind — as composer, arranger, conductor, and > performer — is that a caesura is generally longer than a comma/breath, and > intentionally interrupts the flow of the overall line, whereas the > comma/breath usually doesn't (or at least doesn't in as dramatic a manner). > > In musical theatre scores, the caesura is used almost exclusively when the > music completely stops and is restarted ‘from silence’ in the next phrase — > indeed, the caesura is quite often coupled with a fermata — whereas the > comma/breath is really only used in situations where the singer/performer > literally needs a little time to phrase off (either for dramatic or > technical/breathing purposes) but the music [in the accompaniment] basically > continues unbroken. > > Hope that helps add useful context! > Kieren.
Thanks. Those are the intended semantics of the \breathe and \caesura commands in the code that is under development. — Dan
