[NSP] Tonschönheit ist Nebensache

2008-09-23 Thread Christopher.Birch
it's better to try to teach people how to think musically than to answer specific questions about what is correct or incorrect... Indeed. A friend of mine once told me about a concert during his schooldays when he was sitting next to a kid who was apparently the nephew or something of a

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-23 Thread Christopher.Birch
pegment sans appui I'm not familiar with the term. Is this what purists might call a dégringolement? c To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-23 Thread Gibbons, John
The Henry Atkinson MS has several commonly notated ornaments - * A pair of vertical lines over a note: || * A pair of diagonal lines over a note: \\ * A pair of diagonal lines through the vertical of a note. These are easy to distinguish and are often used together, eg in the Reed House Rant.

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-23 Thread Richard York
Dunno for sure, but when I was editing, largely self-taught, a MS I found of an early 18th century gent's favourite flute (i.e. recorder) tunes, he had a whole plethora of marks, spirals, cirles with dots, the lot. I looked in the Division Recorder Book for help, where there are