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Help with a French marking

Author: brycon
Date: 2010-03-06 15:03

I am playing a Bruno Mantovani piece that has a section in which the note heads are diamonds. The direction for these notes is: "son + souffle."
Has anyone encountered this before? Sound plus blowing/puffing?

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Re: Help with a French marking

Author: mrn
Date: 2010-03-06 19:00

One way to translate it is "sound + breath." At first I thought this meant something like a breathy sound or subtone (and it may still mean that).

Another clue, though, can be found on p. 8 of the following under "Breath or air sounds":

http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses_1/available/etd-11122005-151912/unrestricted/Treatise.of.David.Odom.pdf

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Re: Help with a French marking

Author: brycon
Date: 2010-03-06 19:49

I thought that it may be some sort of breath or blowing sound, but Montovani writes specific pitches so I'm not sure.

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Re: Help with a French marking

Author: brycon
Date: 2010-03-06 19:51

BTW, thanks MRN for the link to the theses.

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