At 9:57 PM -0400 9/12/06, Skip Lombardi wrote:
Greetings,
I'm writing a big band arrangement where I have a ritard that leads
to a tempo change. When I did this sort of thing as a student, I
used to make a graphic of eyeglasses on the parts, to indicate that
the musicians should look up to get the new tempo from the
conductor. I'm not finding anything like that in the articulation
tool, the expression tool, or the Jazz Font set. Is there indeed an
eyeglass symbol or something comparable in Finale (2005)?
Personal opinion below, nothing more.
I've never seen it in print. It is a standard personal notation like
many others (and I've learned that Europeans have another set of such
personal markings that we've never adopted here in the U.S.), and as
such it has no agreed-upon meaning. You may use it to mean "look
up," but I may use it to mean "watch out!" (Which is exactly what I
DO use it to mean, as a personal note to myself.)
Like any non-standard notation, feel free to use it, but don't expect
everyone else to know how you intend for them to interpret it. And
any musician who isn't smart enough to look up and watch when a tempo
change is marked (is it clearly marked?) has no business playing in a
big band.
John
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