I don't recall the names of the publishers, but I did notice that they were all fairly recent editions. Mostly song collections and method book type stuff for young/beginning pianists.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Darcy James Argue <djar...@earthlink.net>wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > Wow. What publishers (out of curiosity)? > > Again, I've never seen this symbol and I think it looks horrifically ugly. > > Cheers, > > - DJA > ----- > WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > > On 24 Feb 2010, at 3:55 PM, Ryan wrote: > > > I'd love to! But, the sample I showed above came from a published piano > > book, and the composer showed me a dozen other examples. > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Darcy James Argue > > <djar...@earthlink.net>wrote: > > > >> Tell the composer he's wrong! > >> > >> I have never seen that U-shaped symbol in any piano music. It's always a > >> square bracket. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places, but... > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> - DJA > >> ----- > >> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > >> > >> On 24 Feb 2010, at 3:23 PM, Ryan wrote: > >> > >>> I tried using that but the composer wants me to use the other symbol. > >>> > >>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM, David W. Fenton > >>> <lists.fin...@dfenton.com>wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 24 Feb 2010 at 10:40, Ryan wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Does Finale have this "U"-shaped symbol in the lower staff? It's used > >> to > >>>>> tell the pianist to play the note with the other hand. > >>>>> > >>>>> http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n130/rwb76/Thumb_symbol.jpg > >>>>> > >>>>> I haven't found it in the built-in articulation libraries. I haven't > >>>>> started looking through other fonts like Toccata, yet, but I hope > >> someone > >>>>> knows where to find it and can help me save some time! > >>>> > >>>> I would use a bracket, possibly with R.H. annotation, as on p. 11 of > >>>> this score (m. 204, 205): > >>>> > >>>> http://dfenton.com/Carols/RoseOrgan.pdf > >>>> > >>>> That seems much more standard notation, and that's speaking as a > >>>> lifelong keyboard player. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> 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 > >>>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Finale mailing list > >>> Finale@shsu.edu > >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Finale mailing list > >> Finale@shsu.edu > >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > Finale@shsu.edu > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale