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Re: caesura
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Paul Scott |
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Re: caesura |
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Mon, 03 Mar 2003 19:56:36 -0700 |
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Graham Percival wrote:
As for the caesura, I think the proper solution is to add the
character to the font, and use it with BreathMark (syntax: \breathe).
From what I gather, the symbol is not complicated, so it should be easy.
As long as it can intersect the top one or two lines of the staff.
Probably. Unfortuntely, I don't have an example of it handy (most of
the time the conductor just tells us to put it in there, so I make two
angled slashed in the music in my messy handwriting :) , and I'm not
at all familiar with fonts.
Paul, do you have an example you could scan in or something?
I gave this in my second post in this thread:
It is ID113 in unicode visible here:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
BTW, you do know that we have a breath mark that looks like little
tick ( ie. ' ) through the top staffline. Would that satisfy Paul?
No, but I'm sure we'll have a good solution here soon.
I use \breathe quite often, but that's not quite what Paul is after.
Imagine this: the whole orchestra is playing fast 16th notes,
fortissimo, with an accel. The music builds up -- and then suddenly
stops, leaving a few beats of silence before something else happens.
That's the kind of place this symbol is used for (sometimes called
"railroad tracks"). It's not a breath mark that's used to aid in
phrasing a lyrical melody; it's a sudden, complete, and perhaps
unexpected stop. I think it's used more often in musical theatre
than in symphonic music.
Probably true. That's what I was working on when this came up.
I still haven't time to try your other suggestion but I hope to do that
right away.
Thanks,
Paul
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