Re: 'fermata'

[Paul Scott]

Paul Scott wrote:
> Trevor Bača wrote:
> > 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. 
> It certainly is!  Maybe it's not used as much but it has been used 
> many times in my 53 years of playing instrumental music - mostly in 
> Arizona - in may kinds of groups.
That should be "many" kinds of groups.