On 30 Dec 2006 at 17:39, Andrew Stiller wrote: > It is a redoubled "Mozart caret" (wedge staccato).
Where in the *hell* does such terminology come from? Mozart never wrote any such thing as "wedge staccato." He only uses dots and strokes and it's impossible to actually make a clear distinction between his use of them as fast dots end up as strokes and some strokes are small enough to be interpreted as dots. > I have seen this > before in other works up to the middle of the 19th c. , and also > examples with more than two strokes--up to six, in at least one case. The wedge didn't exist in Graupner's time, either in MS or printing. It is a 19th-century invention. > Normally, it would mean to play two staccato sixteenths in place of > the notated 8th. Coming out of a tie like that, though, I'm not so > sure. It looks to me as if Graupner was just writing hastily and > indicating that the first *two* notes of each tuplet were to be played > staccato. This would certainly fit the musical sense of the passage. I don't believe this interpretation makes any sense, as each of them is on the end of a tied note. Also, so far as I can tell from your desccription, what you're referring to always had a bar through the stem to indicate the note values. I have no idea how to interpret the symbol. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
