Sunday, December 22, 2019, 4:12:42 PM, Malte Meyn wrote:
> Am 22.12.19 um 13:23 schrieb Peter Toye: >> I >> agree about \sp and \spp - what on earth are they meant to mean - a >> sudden quiet note in the middle of louder ones? Not a common musical >> gesture. > Maybe they mean “subito piano” and “subito > pianissimo”? Then they would > not be for only a single not like an accent > (fz, sf, …) but for all > future notes like a regular “piano”, just with an additional “don’t > decresc. before this”. But that’s only me guessing … Possible. New Oxford hasn't heard of them. The point about sf, fz, sfz, rf, rfz is that they are abbreviations of normal words according to my Italian dictionary (not a language I speak).
