On 26 Feb 2011 at 7:37, David H. Bailey wrote: > On the other hand, isn't the tone different for fingering a pitch > which could be fingered in different spots on all 4 strings? So a > note which can be played high up on the G string would sound different > from the same pitch being played lower down on the D string, much > lower down on the A string and very low down on the E string. Or am I > imagining the difference based only on evidence I find from playing > the same pitch in different places on my guitar?
I was thinking the same thing about specifying close strings instead of open. I don't know what the default practice is on modern strings, but on the viol, one favors closed strings over open strings. That means that if you have a choice in a passage of D on the A string, you choose it instead of the open D string, as long as the rhythm works well for that and it doesn't cause a string crossing. If a composer wanted the particular sound of the open string, putting in the 0 for that note would indicate a preferred fingering that has an effect on the sound quality. But my bet is that it would likely be ignored by as lot of players, anyway, unless there was a note to the effect that the fingerings were intended to favor open strings where possible. But you could do that with the note and leave out the fingerings entirely, since it basically depends on the performers having read the composer's note and then systematically following her wishes, nonetheless. -- 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
