Vaughan McAlley wrote: > On 19 April 2012 03:08, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote: >> This is a hand-drawn score. I'm thinking that they probably meant snap >> pizzicato, and it was easier to draw the line all the way through than to >> stop part way through. Snap pizzicato would fit in the context, and I have >> found no source that shows the exact "phi" symbol. Have any of you string >> players seen that notation? > Snap pizzicato and the very Victorian Arthur Sullivan don’t really gel > together in my mind. I wish I could offer an alternative theory.
Well, this orchestration is from the 1981 Joseph Papp revival that was used for the Linda Ronstadt / Kevin Kline movie version. It contains a number of improvements over the original. The notation occurs in "With Cat-Like Tread", where the pirates stomp around loudly while all the time bragging (loudly) about how quiet they are. By now the point is moot, because the scores have gone back to the rental agency, but I appreciate the comments. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
