[Finale] Drum roll lines....how far should you extend the line?

2007-01-28 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Hi all: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/graupner/drum-roll-1.jpg I'm not sure what the standard rule concerning how far you extend the trill extension line for a drum roll. Should the line end exactly OVER the next note? Or should you extend it for the value of the note that it's meant

Re: [Finale] Drum roll lines....how far should you extend the line?

2007-01-28 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jan 28, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Hi all: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/graupner/drum-roll-1.jpg I'm not sure what the standard rule concerning how far you extend the trill extension line for a drum roll. Should the line end exactly OVER the next note? Or should

Re: [Finale] Drum roll lines....how far should you extend the line?

2007-01-28 Thread shirling neueweise
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/graupner/drum-roll-1.jpg I'm not sure what the standard rule concerning how far you extend the trill extension line for a drum roll. use tremolo bars (3 diagonal thick lines) unless you are doing a period notation work. depending on context you might

Re: [Finale] Drum roll lines....how far should you extend the line?

2007-01-28 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On 1/28/07, shirling neueweise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use tremolo bars (3 diagonal thick lines) unless you are doing a period notation work. depending on context you might also need to tied the notes to avoid any sort of metric emphasis. why not a whole note instead of two half notes? the

Re: [Finale] Drum roll lines....how far should you extend the line?

2007-01-28 Thread shirling neueweise
It's baroque music, the editor prefers not tampering too much with the existing notation habits. A period baroque timpani player would understand this notation ah yes then definitely the trill line without ties. sorry. however, i'm not an expert by any means in baroque notation, but i

Re: [Finale] Drum roll lines....how far should you extend the line?

2007-01-28 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On 1/28/07, shirling neueweise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i prefer extending the trill lines (when used as trills) over the entire sounding duration, but the baroque practice may be different... If you want to open a can of worms (or as Dennis Collins would say another kettle of fish), some

Re: [Finale] Drum roll lines....how far should you extend the line?

2007-01-28 Thread John Howell
At 7:32 PM -0500 1/28/07, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: If you want to open a can of worms (or as Dennis Collins would say another kettle of fish), some suggest that such timpani notation markings were meant to be played as rather festive embellishments, including physical displays with the drummer

Re: [Finale] Drum roll lines....how far should you extend the line?

2007-01-28 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On 1/28/07, John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course I realize that you're picturing the Scots bass drummers with bagpipe bands, with their twirling stick choreography, but I have trouble projecting that onto historical military units, when the military has always emphasized discipline.

Re: [Finale] Drum roll lines....how far should you extend the line?

2007-01-28 Thread Rafael L. Junchaya
According to Ted Ross (p. 197), The wavy sign extends and ends above the last affected note and not the duration of the last note. Rafael Leonardo Junchaya I'm not sure what the standard rule concerning how far you extend the trill extension line for a drum roll. Should the line end exactly

Re: [Finale] Drum roll lines....how far should you extend the line?

2007-01-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jan 28, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Rafael L. Junchaya wrote: According to Ted Ross (p. 197), The wavy sign extends and ends above the last affected note and not the duration of the last note. Rafael Leonardo Junchaya Ted Ross is wrong. If you end the line thus, the percussionist may think that