Re: 'fermata'

[Trevor Bača]

On 3/3/07, Paul Scott <address@hidden> wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
> (snip)
> >
> > As a Canadian, I'm mortified to find myself agreeing with the Yanks :P
> >  , but that is the case.  I've never heard of a "pause" being used in
> > a formal sense; it's always been used when addressing children or
> > inexperienced amateur musicians.
> >
> > Still, the purpose of the glossary is to educate such people (I'm now
> > including the whole UK and their penal colony as "inexperienced" :),
> > so I've added "pause" to the glossary.  :)
> The other American English word I'm familiar with for fermata is "hold."

?

I'm confused. "Hold" -- like "pause" -- certainly isn't used as a
musical term in the US. Or am I missing something? Is "hold" a
Britishism for fermata?


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