The marking is placed over a half note and a whole note and then also over an eighth tied to a quarter. Each time it is the 3 dots. It is in the wind parts as well as the string parts.
Sandy
I hope I don't show my ignorance here, but I am working on a composition in which the composer used a symbol that looks like a fermata, but with 3 dots underneath. I am interpreting this as a fermata, am I correct? Or is it something different entirely?
Sounds like a slurred triple staccato to me. Is it a string part? What's the note length? Are there bars through the stem?
mdl
Some composers use varying numbers of dots under a fermata to indicate holds of differing lengths. How long a 3-dot fermata is supposed to be, I couldn't say.
BTW, the font Sonora (available for free on the web, but I forget where) has one- and 2-dot fermatas that are round, square, and triangular--but no 3-dot fermata, sorry.
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