Klarinet Archive - Posting 000815.txt from 1998/11

From: Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.Net>
Subj: Re: [kl] 8va vs. 8basso
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 06:40:25 -0500

I'm with Bill on this one. In more than three decades of active performing
on several instruments, I've never encountered 15ma in a score. True, two
octaves is 15 scale steps, but I'd scratch my head at it too--and I know a
little Italian.

What we have here, I think, is a cultural difference. The French say "eight
days" for a week and "fifteen days" for two weeks. English speaking people
don't.

>Sorry, but if I already know that "8va" means play an octave higher,
>interpreting "16va" to mean play two octaves higher is completely intuitive
>to me, even if technically wrong. I would scratch my head in puzzlement at
>"15ma," unless I actually knew Italian.
>Bill Hausmann

Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.net>

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