2. Does it (now) bother anyone else that dashed slurs do not look
like real slurs? I guess I always assumed — without visually
confirming, obviously — that dashed slurs were real slurs (that
thickened and tapered, etc.) with cutouts; I now see that dashed
"slurs" are simply dashed lines (of invariant thickness) which curve
along the path that a slur would take between two notes. What is
standard engraving practice when it comes to such things?
Cheers,
Kieren.
In older scores made with the program SCORE, dashed ties and slurs
thickened in the middle as you describe and they looked good. In Finale,
dashed-slurs have a similarly non-dynamic shape (that is, they don't
thicken in the middle), and dashed ties aren't available at all, except
by 'fooling' Finale by slurring two notes of the same pitch, and this is
an ugly and time consuming process in Finale. Sibelius is similar.
The publisher of my guitar music (Les Productions D'Oz in Quebec,
Canada) uses dashed slurs like these with invariant thickness to
indicate pull-offs and hammer-ons, and uses regular slur markings for
phrase slurs. I can't say that I've noticed dashed slurs in other
places before. Sylvain (the editor at D'Oz) always uses these
dashed-line things, though. It probably would look nicer if they
thickened in the middle and tapered at the ends. :)
In popular guitar-tab music, we use dashed-ties to connect held harmonic
pitches over the bar line. I have also seen dashed-slurs to denote
ligado technique in classical guitar music (and perhaps other string
music, I can't recall).
Jon
David
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