Timeline for What does a small slash through a line on the staff mean?
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| Jun 27, 2019 at 12:58 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | I agree that it's most likely a breath-mark, but it'd be much easier to be sure if we could examine the full score. Let's see if the OP gives us more info | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 3:03 | comment | added | Tom Serb | @YourUncleBob - it's really difficult to say from just a fraction of a measure here. There's a ritardando, and they are often followed by a fermata and/or caesura, but I don't see an "a tempo" instruction. I think it was probably handwritten - it's thicker than the stems, and about the same thickness as the bowing marks. Tick marks for caesura are pretty rare in printed scores - so I'm guessing the same player that added the bow marks put it in as a reminder for some instruction from the conductor (which means it's would probably be a caesura). But I'm not 100% sure. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 1:29 | comment | added | Your Uncle Bob | @TomSerb Are you saying this one-line version is actually more like a breath mark, and not a caesura? | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 1:26 | comment | added | Tom Serb | @YourUncleBob - the Wikipedia entry also says "It may be a comma, a tick, or two lines, either slashed (//) or upright (||)". But there is a difference: a caesura is a pause, a temporary halt in the rhythm, and a breath mark (which is typically shaped like a comma) doesn't change the rhythm - you take a breath between the notes, but the next note comes in at the same time as it would if no mark was present. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 0:21 | comment | added | Your Uncle Bob | Wikipedia shows the caesura as two slashed lines. Is there anything special about this one-line version? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesura | |
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| Jun 27, 2019 at 0:19 | history | answered | user61661 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |