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Add new "soft accent" character to 'Articulations' range #35
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I still don't understand how this differs from the existing messa di voce? All these examples look like messa di voce to me. |
In my experience, your second example is the more common way to notate a messa di voce, and is what I would expect the current SMuFL glyph to represent. |
Oh, so, above examples produces the same results? |
As far as I can see the confusion stems from the fact that the meaning (i.e. how to perform it) of the "compound symbol that is essentially a reversed accent next to a normal accent" is ambiguous. Some people argue it indicates a messa di voce dynamic, others are on the opinion that it indicates a soft accent articulation. I see two ways to deal with this:
Note that (2) requires that one is able to encode the semantic information by other means, but that might even be a good thing... or not. |
Sorry, it took me long to provide more examples. There are several of these in the work I will conduct next... "Blue Roses for Female Voices and Piano" by Takatomi Nobunaga, published by Ongaku no Tomo sha Corporation (Tokyo, Japan). ISBN 978-4-276-55458-0 Again, Japanese version of Finale does includes a glyph for soft accent in its default font, Kosaku. |
To address this requirement, I propose creating a new Articulation supplement range, with a block of 16 reserved code points from U+ED40 through U+ED4F. The following 8 glyphs will be added to this new range:
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This has now been done. See the new Articulation supplement range. |
Messa di voce (according to some, mezza di voce) consists of crescendo + decrescendo. The ‘soft accent‘, generally known elsewhere as ‘closed accent’, consists of an ordinary accent mark followed by a reversed accent mark <>. It was common enough at one time, and it is a mystery to me why until now fonts with music symbols have not included it. SMUFL will save the day, I believe. I can now only request that for downloading SMUFL-consistent fonts we can have a simple ‘download’ button, and not have to chase our own tails around Github trying to figure out sentences in thick Geekspeak. I don’t want to download source code; I just want to download the bloody font, thank you. I have had T-Clock on my computer for around 20 years, and have had to download it for one reason or another several times, but now I find that Github has the current version and I cannot figure out how to download it. With some time on Google I finally found a site with an older version and straightforward downloading. |
Originally requested by Kentaro Sato, and supported by other community members, including Alex Plötz.
This picture excerpted from the piano reduction of Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann shows the symbol in question:
It also appears in the violin 1 and violin 2 parts of Brahms's fourth symphony, bars 9-12:
It's debatable whether this is a specific kind of messa di voce dynamic marking or more genuinely an articulation of some kind, but since it is relatively widely used it warrants inclusion. Its form is essentially a reversed accent next to a normal accent, designed for centering above the note or chord on which the "soft accent" should be played.
Kentaro Sato also requests versions combined with staccato, tenuto, and staccato-tenuto, though no sources for their use in published music have yet been provided.
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