Andrew York "Watercolor"

[Jose-Luis Ochoa]

Hello fellow CGist,

I've been teaching myself the works of Andrew York contained within "8
Dreamscapes".

My question concerns the lovely piece "Watercolor". What is the purpose of
the floating comma that is near the end of the piece. I'm not familiar with
the notation.

Thanks in advance for your input.

Jose

[EAM_news]

Hello José,

The comma, in music usually named caesura (lat. (pron. chesura))
means a musical breath-taking, used most of the times before
the beginning of a new phrase!

Hope that this helps!

PS Yes, Andy's music is really nice!

Kind regards,

Octavian Badéa - General Manager & CEO

Edition Artis Music - Scandinavian Guitar Centre
Guitar Music Publisher & Distributor

Grev Turegatan 79, 114 38 Stockholm, Sweden
ph&fax:+46 8 6619910, e-mail: s...@swipnet.se
http://home.swipnet.se/scandguitar/
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[Sean Winkler]

Jose-Luis Ochoa wrote:
>
> Hello fellow CGist,
>
> I've been teaching myself the works of Andrew York contained within "8
> Dreamscapes".
>
> My question concerns the lovely piece "Watercolor". What is the purpose of
> the floating comma that is near the end of the piece. I'm not familiar with
> the notation.
>
> Thanks in advance for your input.
>
> Jose

I'm not familiar with the piece, but a comma above the staff is usually
a breath mark. In vocal music, the meaning of the breath mark is
obvious. In instrumental music, composers often use the comma to denote
a brief pause in the music. The comma is usually placed between notes,
so technically the note(s) preceding the comma should be silenced, a
brief pause is taken, then the music is resumed. I have heard pieces
where the performer allows the preceding note to ring through, which
would really be a brief fermata.

Sean Winkler

[Jose-Luis Ochoa]

Hello Octavia,

I had the pleasure of meeting you when I was in Stockholm last month. I
played a Bolin guitar and another fine guitar from Johanson (?) patterned
after Romalillos (?). Thanks for allowing me to play the guitars.

I purchased a "Gitano" guitar support which I use all the time. It works
perfectly. I showed it to a couple of my fellow CGist and they were
interested. Hopefully, you might be getting a few orders from the
Philadelphia area.

Thanks for the response concerning the music notation called "caesura".

Jose

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>Hello José,
>
>The comma, in music usually named caesura (lat. (pron. chesura))
>means a musical breath-taking, used most of the times before
>the beginning of a new phrase!
>
>Hope that this helps!
>
>PS Yes, Andy's music is really nice!
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Octavian Badéa - General Manager & CEO
>
>Edition Artis Music - Scandinavian Guitar Centre
>Guitar Music Publisher & Distributor
>
>Grev Turegatan 79, 114 38 Stockholm, Sweden
>ph&fax:+46 8 6619910, e-mail: s...@swipnet.se
>http://home.swipnet.se/scandguitar/
>**********************************************************
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>
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