Re: Question for Jenn

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 03:28:21 +0100, Jenn wrote
(in article
<jennconductsREMOVETHIS-3DBF11.19282108062009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In article <MP-dnbndZ_ZFLbDXnZ2dnUVZ8sadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Adrian Legg <clickcontactus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jenn,

I wonder if you could tell me what the triangle symbol in a conductor's
score
stands for? Is it a strict 3/4 or something?

Ta,
Adrian

Howdy,

There are two main uses:
1. Some conductors use it in a work or movement that contains meter
changes, to indicate 3/x. A square would indicate 4, etc.

2. When there are complex percussion parts (for example, a four line
percussion score that covers 10 instruments), the triangle part may be
marked with a little triangle.

Note that both of these uses are almost always added by the conductor
"studying" the score, as a kind of crutch.

There is also a note head shape that is a triangle, sometimes used in
very avant-garde music, or as a substitute for old "shaped note"
notation. Neither is often seen.

Hope this helps!

It does indeed. Thank you very much Jenn, it's good to know what I'm misusing
to indicate a bend; I couldn't find it in the Concise Oxford.
So it seems the only thing that could go wrong is that an expert might
suddenly lurch into a waltz, which would be quite nice :-)

Any plans to come to California in the near future?


It's looking more likely that US trips might have to be outside term times,
and it's probably too late to organise anything this year. I want to teach,
and my snooker frame query arises in a cross-eyed and fatteningly sedentary
transcription project aimed at that.
We'll see.
Yours,
Adrian



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