Cancelling Sul Ponticello
Fiona Abrahami
This doesn't seem to appear in any of my theory books, and when I asked my
teacher, I just got a blank look and a nervous cough :-) I want the cellist
in a string quartet to play over the bridge for a short section in a piece
and then return to normal bowing position, but what is the term that cancels
a Sul Ponticello?
Fiona
David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)
"ord" or "nat" are the most common abbreviations. I use "ord" myself,
but both are correct, and you'll see that major publishers of new music
often use both (presumably based on composers' peferences?)- though
using them interchangeably in the same piece wouldn't be a good idea.
It's hard for me to give an exact statistic, but I encounter "ord" more
in new published scores- but that's just based on the sample of scores I
see, or own.
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Fiona Abrahami
"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote
> Fiona Abrahami <fiona@NO_SPAM.intxtdoc.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Trivial question:
>>
>> This doesn't seem to appear in any of my theory books, and when I asked
>> my
>> teacher, I just got a blank look and a nervous cough :-) I want the
>> cellist
>> in a string quartet to play over the bridge for a short section in a
>> piece
>> and then return to normal bowing position, but what is the term that
>> cancels
>> a Sul Ponticello?
>
> "ord" or "nat" are the most common abbreviations. I use "ord" myself,
> but both are correct, and you'll see that major publishers of new music
> often use both (presumably based on composers' peferences?)- though
> using them interchangeably in the same piece wouldn't be a good idea.
> It's hard for me to give an exact statistic, but I encounter "ord" more
> in new published scores- but that's just based on the sample of scores I
> see, or own.
Thanks, I guess there's no point in worrying about "ord" being a different
language to Sul Pont :-)
Fiona
David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)
It's not- it's the same thing in Italian- i.e. ordinario- and naturale
for that matter.
Fiona Abrahami
Duh, see what assumptions can do, I assumed English ordinary :-)
Fiona