Re: Reading Staff Notation

From: Peter Ross (peteross@cloudhandsmusic.com)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 10:27:31 PDT


>James,

I don't know the answers to your questions. I could look at it, but
I'm not really familiar with this stuff.

Peter

>I'm currently learning a shakuhachi and koto piece called "Ryuuka"
>by Miyashita Shin. The shakuhachi part is in western staff notation,
>which mostly isn't a problem for me, but there are some odd things
>about it that I can't figure out.
>
>In particular, there are two levels of ties. The first set of ties
>look like phrasing marks, indicating where you breath more than
>anything else. The second set of ties are inside the first set, and
>I can't figure out what they're supposed to signify. Sometimes it
>looks like they should simply be tieing together notes to make notes
>of unusual duration, like a quarter note plus a sixteenth, say, or
>holding a note across a measure line. Other times that would make no
>sense, either because they tie notes of different pitches, or the
>durations are two simple, like two quarter notes.
>
>For example, there's a measure in 12/8 time, with four dotted
>quarter notes (one beat each, the way I'm counting it), all the same
>pitch (high Ro), and all tied together. Am I supposed to hold the
>note or articulate it?
>
>A more general question is, are there conventions for writing
>shakuhachi music in western staff notation? Or do different
>composers and/or publishers generally do different things?
>
>Thanks.
>
>James
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