At 10:30 PM +0100 1/2/10, SN jef chippewa wrote:
anyone have the sequenza handy and can cross-ref?
--
ok, i thought that there was a salzedo-sanctioned notaton for this.
the composer has said to block the pedal at natural(^) or
natural(v), but if i understood chris right, these would produce two
different pitches, either b or nat but never sharp? this means that
there is a "breaking point" in the gliss where it shifts to the
upper or lower note, correct?
Stop and think for a moment about how a harp operate. The pedals
operate 2 sets of fretting stops (and I'm sure there's a technical
term for them) that either do or do not fret the strings at the
natural and sharp levels. The "buzz" you're after is the string
vibrating against that stop when it isn't firmly in either position.
Therefore I see no way that you could have all 3 string pitches at
once. You could have Bb/B natural or you could have B natural/B#.
But it isn't as simple as producing two different pitches, because
neither pitch would be clean and obvious, since they're both produced
by the same string. But yes, it would be a combined sound along with
the buzz.
i am thinking -- in fact proposing -- that using a 1/4 sharp or 1/4
flat (maybe plus the Z-buzz symbol) would make sense as the standard
notation that should be used for this.
There are no quarter-steps possible on a harp, at least without
hand-fretting a single string, and I don't know whether that's even
possible. The basic mechanics don't allow it. So harpists are not
only not used to seeing such notation, I doubt that they'd know how
to interpret it.
The question seems to be which effect is more important to you: the
buzz of the string against the frets, or sounding 2 pitches at once?
For the latter, it would be more normal to use 2 adjacent strings.
Are there no harpists on this list? There are at least 2 on the SibeliusList.
John
--
John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
(mailto:john.how...@vt.edu)
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
"We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition
of jazz musicians.
_______________________________________________
Finale mailing list
Finale@shsu.edu
http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
