----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Campbell" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: What is this mark?
Looking at my copy of the Novello Messiah, bar 17 is marked for Strings,
so it seems pretty clear that your mark is simply a device used by Watkins
Shaw to indicate changes in the instrumental summary below the choral
parts. For example, at rehearsal B, bar 22, the mark shows that the top
half note belongs to the first violin, while the trumpets have the rest of
ther notes on beat one.
Agreed. My 1966 Novello reprint of the 1959 version has a line spanning
from the word "Trumpet" to the bracket where they end - this style of
indication would make a good candidate for a text spanner.
--
Phil Holmes
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