Apr 18, 2020 · A breath mark will necessarily mean that the note preceding it will have to be played slightly shorter than denoted (much is the same way a grace note will steal some time from the note preceding it). Breath marks are usually engraved with a …

May 8, 2013 · In the first, you can make a little emphasis on the note after the breath mark. In the second, you would probably create a little space after the note ahead of the breath, but would not emphasize the following now. So when you see a breath mark that makes little sense in the context of your part, consider the various reasons it could be there.

355: Alternative method of creating breath marks using a line rather than a symbol Here is a tip for creating a breath mark as a line in Sibelius. Some advantages to this method over using a standard symbol are: You can drag the breath mark character contained in the line to exactly in the right place horizontally, and its positioning will flow with the bar width somewhat It works …

100 % A355 Alternative method of creating breath marks using a line rather than a symbol Here is a tip for creating a breath mark as a line in Sibelius. Some advantages to this method over using... 50 % A304 Tempo and metronome marks - no effect on playback Sibelius 2.1 and above are able to accurately read metronome marks containing floating point numbers... 50 % A228 …

Apr 16, 2018 · I have two questions concerning how a composer writes breath marks in their score for brass/woodwinds: First: Is it required that the composer notate breath marks where players can/should breathe, or would the composer leave that out and let players decide, in their own parts, when and where to breathe?

Mar 7, 2024 · Both the period after "elements" and the breath mark between "elements" and "Clouds" are correct. The structure set up in the previous two phrases is a breath every four measures. Desjardins wants to preserve that, which means taking no breath after "elements".

Feb 16, 2024 · For each breath mark, the organist needs to convert the whole note to a dotted half note plus a quarter rest. Again, there is also an implied breath mark at the repeat sign, so the whole note also needs to be played as a dotted half note plus a quarter rest.

Jun 7, 2022 · I'd like to get lilypond to produce the ://: mark above the stave used in hymnals (at least) to indicate "repeat the preceding line of words here" - for an example of what I mean, see the mark above the stave in the first bar of the second page. Is it possible? I've spent some time looking a snippets to no avail - it doesn't appear to be a glyph I could include using \markup or …

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Jun 27, 2019 · It's a tiny caesura, often a breath mark. With bowing instructions penciled in, it wouldn't be a breath instruction even though the violinist apparently is considered to be able to catch enough of a breath to figure out whether they are bowing in the wrong direction: the immediately following note has an "upbow" instruction on it.