Re: special markings for string players....

[Mats Bengtsson]

Over the years, there have been many different marks used for these kind 
of bowing indications. Unfortunately, it seems that it's almost only the 
usual upbow and downbow marks that are really standardized. On the other 
hand, the lack of standardization shouldn't prevent that well-designed 
font glyphs are added to the Feta font if anybody has the time and 
competence to do the job.

For quick hacks, it's perhaps easier to draw the symbols using 
postscript. Don't forget to add the solutions to the LSR.

     /Mats

Trevor Bača wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ralph Palmer 
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Paul and Marc -
>
>     My apologies for the late reply -- I was on vacation last week,
>     with no internet access. For the circumflex indicating a half
>     step, take a look at the Learning Manual and possibly the index,
>     and look for \markup.
>
>     For the bowing markers, I've seen H or Fr, T or P, M, LH, UH and
>     WH, for heel or frog, tip or point, middle, lower half, upper
>     half, and whole bow, respectively.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Perhaps a touch off topic, but there's a brilliant pair of symbols for 
> 'downbow over the entire compass of the bow' and 'upbow over the 
> entire compass of the bow' floating around contemporary scores now.  
> The 'full downbow' symbol is the usual squared-off staple (or capital 
> pi, perhaps) but with a 'foot' that extends to the right:
>
>   ___
>   |    |
>   |    |_
>
> The 'full upbow' symbol is the usual V but with a superscripted 
> 'shoulder' that extends, likewise, to the right:
>     
>        _
>   \   /
>    \ /
>
> A friend first pointed these out to me in scores by (Berlin-based) 
> Swiss composer Hanspeter Kyburz. They're immediately striking, 
> extremely useful, and deserve to be better known. (Though I think 
> neither exists, at least not yet, in Lily.)
>
>
> Trevor.
>
>
>
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