Werner, :-)> The problem with ligatures is that they have 3 meanings - ties, bowing/breathing marks and phrasing marks. And sometimes a note will have all three. But this is getting a bit off-topic.
Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 7:33:59 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> Well, just look at a Mahler score. He was one of the great >> conductors, and the strings are full of bowing marks. How many of >> them are followed by conductors these days I don't know. > Well, just look at a Richard Strauss score :-) His scores are full of > legatos in the strings which are definitely *not* meant to be executed > as bowing instructions. > Note also that until the beginning of the 20th century the players in > a string group of an orchestra did not try at all to have the same > bowing. In scores of that time, notated bowing marks are intended as > a special sound effect (for example, a sequence of down-bow-only > notes). > Werner
