Klarinet Archive - Posting 000524.txt from 1998/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Accents again
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 04:22:03 -0400

"Accent" in poetry and rhetoric is to do with emplasis. "Accent" in music,
according to Roger G, is a mark on a
piece of paper. He can-not be ser-i-ous!
The use of "accents" to mean various signs on paper is secondary, and
came into English (and other languages) from Early Modern French. Perhaps
it should have stayed there. The history and provenance of such signs
deserves a book, which I don't think exists - but I'm open to
commissions....
Roger Shilcock

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