Klarinet Archive - Posting 000608.txt from 1999/11

From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Notation question (rf)
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:20:10 -0500

Laroy Borchert quote the Harvard dictionary about the meaning of "rf" and I
thank him for it. The dictionary describes what the meaning is today, but
there is a big controversy about what the meaning of this symbol was in the
18th century. There is important evidence that the rf applied to a number
of notes following the first.

For example Mozart wrote some notes beginning with an "rf" and then several
notes later writes "p." So the argument arises if all the notes beginning
with the first up to (but not including the one with the "p") should also
have accents on them.

The problem with music dictionaries is that they do not give the meaning of
words in the various periods of music usage. And those meanings to change
with time

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Laroy Borchert <lborcher@-----.edu>
Date: Monday, November 15, 1999 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Notation question (rf)

>According to my "Harvard Dictionary," ; rf (or rfz or rinf) is the
>abbreviation for rinforzando. "A sudden accent on a single note or chord,
>practically synonymous with sforzando." I know that Beethoven also used
>that marking quite often.
>Laroy
>
>
>Dr. Laroy Borchert
>New Mexico State University
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Oliver Seely <oliver@-----.EDU>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 11:56 AM
>Subject: [kl] Notation question
>
>
>> Sorry, I garbled my second paragraph. Corrected, the message ought
>> to read:
>>
>> The 1828 Boufil duet I'm working on has several notational forms with
>> which I am not familiar. I've figured out most of them, but what is
>> rf (or rF)? Mezzo forte?
>>
>> How about repeated vertical lines above sixteenth notes? Would you
>> use >, a dot or a > with a dot in it?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Oliver
>>
>>
>>
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