At 5:16 PM 07/15/02, Andrew Stiller wrote: >It's certainly less common than the usual accent, but not at all rare >or unorthodox. I have in front of me the Dover volume of Gottschalk >reprints, and he appears to use the hat accent exclusively, and in >almost every piece. Other 19th-c. composers, I'm sure, use both types >together.
I agree. I'd also suggest that it's a function of time and era. My impression is that it didn't catch on until the middle of the 18th century, and it seems to have become popular with Germans before it did with others. I've seen a lot of these vertical accents in late romantic music, and in piano reductions of orchestral parts. Far less in early romantic or classical music written for piano. I tend to think of it in the same category as "fff" which was once an extraordinary thing to say but is not so uncommon now. You might think of it as devaluation of the dynamic currency over the years. That's my general impression anyway, without any serious study of the literature. Perhaps I'm wrong. (By the way, I've never called this symbol a "marcato". I've always known it as a "vertical accent", sometimes called a "vee" or a "hat".) mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
