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
patricksheehanmu...@gmail.com
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Smith
On 3/23/2015 5:38 PM, Steve Parker wrote:
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
Hi David,
I’m not saying it’s universal. It seems a general understanding in the UK brass
band world, but I’ve come across the idea elsewhere.
My childhood brass teacher initially taught it to me (he was a composition PhD,
fwiw..).
I know of no authority for it.
My example was pathological and
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
