Re: String Bass Notation

2012-04-27 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Tim Roberts" To: Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 6:16 PM Subject: Re: String Bass Notation Vaughan McAlley wrote: On 19 April 2012 03:08, Tim Roberts wrote: This is a hand-drawn score. I'm thinking that they probably meant snap pizzic

Re: String Bass Notation

2012-04-27 Thread Tim Roberts
Vaughan McAlley wrote: > On 19 April 2012 03:08, Tim Roberts 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

Re: String Bass Notation

2012-04-25 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 19 April 2012 03:08, Tim Roberts wrote: > Playing in the pit for Pirates of Penzance last night, the bass player > pointed out an articulation mark in the string bass part that neither of us > had seen before.  It was basically the Greek character "phi" -- a circle > with a vertical line all th

Re: String Bass Notation

2012-04-22 Thread Stjepan Horvat
I'm a doublebass student at Music Acadamy in Zagreb..this should be a bartok pizzicato..i didn't heard that there is an articulation like this and would have a diferent meaning. I aggree with tim that it is easyer to write.. On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Mark Mathias wrote: > I'm a bass playe

Re: String Bass Notation

2012-04-21 Thread Mark Mathias
I'm a bass player who studied with Larry Hurst in the early 70s and a public school string teacher, so I've seen a lot of notation, but never what you are describing. The snap pizzicato has the line drawn vertically through the top of the circle only and the thumb symbol (a fingering indication ---

Re: String Bass Notation

2012-04-19 Thread Tim Roberts
-Eluze wrote: > Tim Roberts 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

Re: String Bass Notation

2012-04-18 Thread -Eluze
at shows the exact "phi" symbol. Have any of > you string players seen that notation? > sorry, I didn't find this score - am i missing something? Eluze -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/String-Bass-Notation-tp33709263p33710930.html Sent from the G

String Bass Notation

2012-04-18 Thread Tim Roberts
Playing in the pit for Pirates of Penzance last night, the bass player pointed out an articulation mark in the string bass part that neither of us had seen before. It was basically the Greek character "phi" -- a circle with a vertical line all the way through it. It occurred several times. This