On 21 Jul 2009, at 20:20, Carl Sorensen wrote:
... a question come up about the name for some notation.
In rock (and maybe jazz) guitar, there is a note described as a
"dead note"
that is notated in both tablature and staff notation with a cross-
style
notehead. This note is played on a muted string, so it gets rhythm
but no
real pitch.
The code has been developed with the name \deadNotesOn,
\deadNotesOff, and
\deadNote.
The same notation appears to be used in woodwinds for what is
sometimes
called a "ghost note".
Blatter, "Instrumentation/Orchestration", p. 79, uses such note-heads
for saxes and flutes playing "key slap", that is, the sound is
produced by closing the key heavily, without blowing, and in the
course damaging the padding :-). They can be both pitched and of
unspecified pitched. In the latter case, the staff is a single line.
Hans
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