-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 35
New issue
Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.
By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.
Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account
Encode combining octave indicators for clefs as used by Sorabji and Finnissy #236
Comments
@mscuthbert says:
|
It feels to me as if these symbols should not be indicated as stylistic alternates for octave clefs, since you could in theory use these markings with any clef (even if these two specific works only happen to use them with treble G and bass F clefs). So I think it would make sense to encode them somehow independently, indicating that they could be combined with clefs or indeed used on their own if the overall clef type is remaining the same and only the octave transposition is changing. |
"An unusual procedure is the systematic replacement of the traditional octava sign (8va) by the letter I with a caret above (Î) to indicate that everything that follows (up to the indication loco, or a downward-pointing arrow in the early works) should be played an octave higher. Sorabji’s practice avoids the need for dotted lines on page after page. Indeed, in works written on three staves and more, the Î symbol is present throughout. Some composers—Ronald Stevenson, Michael Finnissy, Alistair Hinton, and Chris Dench among them—have followed Sorabji’s example." |
These glyphs will be added to the Clefs supplement range as follows:
|
Requested by Wilhelm von Hindenburger:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: