Wide fermatas are old notation: Mozart used them, for instance. In his operas you can find instances of wide fermatas over two or more notes. In most cases it's the singer who has several notes while the orchestra holds one note, but there are cases where the fermata extends over more than one note in the orchestra parts as well (for instance Cosi Fan Tutte, N° 2). Here Mozart writes "colla parte".
I'd create the fermata in a graphics program and import it. On 11 Feb 2012, at 04:48, Aaron Sherber wrote: > On 2/10/2012 12:20 PM, John Howell wrote: >> And unless you know that you are writing for >> musicians who are familiar with new notational >> conventions, I would urge you NOT to invent new >> signs, or new meanings for old and understood >> sings, which then have to be explained in text. >> If I came across Aaron's wide fermata I would >> have no idea at all how to interpret it, but I >> would NOT interpret it as he means it. > > Hmm. I take your point, John, but I'm quite sure that I'm not inventing > this notation and that I've seen it in other scores. I want to say it > was in vocal music, where the voice has a few melismatic notes over a > held note in the accompaniment. That would be a situation very similar > to the one I have, except that the vocal notes weren't dictated. > > Aaron. > _______________________________________________ > 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
