Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2006-08-06 11:22
Ken Shaw wrote:
>> Tony - I don't remember seeing U or / marks? Have you come across them in contemporary music, or in traditional (tonal) music?>>
No, I don't see it much, either, though I have done, on occasion, mostly in contemporary music.
It's more something that I and some others might use to represent, say, that the first bar of the menuetto of the Kegelstatt trio is the first of a pair of bars to be thought of as one phrase, and bars three and four are independent. Then, you might write '/' over the first bar, and 'U' over the second, (indicating that the second bar isn't equally stressed by the piano -- sometimes, they stress it even more!), all without in any way thereby prescribing how that stress is to be achieved.
It's a notation used throughout Cooper and Meyer, 'The Rhythmic Structure of Music', which is I suppose is where I've seen it most. On the other hand, I think that the main thrust of that book is pretty misleading.
As always, you need a context to make decisions about what signs mean. Other posts in this thread seem to miss that point entirely, as though these things are always INSTRUCTIONS WHAT TO DO.
Anyway, he just hasn't provided the context -- which means that we're wasting our time in a way.
Tony
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