Re: mezzo staccato

[David Kastrup]

胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>   I ever asked 3 signs, and 2 (portato and martellato) have been
> solved. Now I just finished my second orchestral work and am revising.
> The articulation makes my head big. There are many mezzo-staccatoed
> notes, but I just used portato. I think it's not correct, because it's
> just a line. In my theory book, a mezzo staccato is a line plus
> staccato. But I don't know whether c4-.-- does this correctly. Are
> these two signs work as one in this circumstance? Or are they far from
> each other?

I don't think your computer would explode if you tried this out.  And
anyway, the notation manual contains pictures of the various accents,
and apparently the combination is called "tenuto" and has its own entry
syntax and shorthand.

-- 
David Kastrup