Re: question: volta + dynamics

[David Bobroff]

>> On Wednesday March 10 2004 12:23, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
>> > On Saturday 06 March 2004 02:53, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote:
>> > >   Is there a preferred way to have two different dynamics in a
>> > > section of music to indicate that it is played at one level the
>> > > first time and at the next level the second time?
>> >
>> > fp is common, and I've seen pf.  I've never seen f-p.
>>
>> fp to me implies that the note have a strong attack, followed by
>> immediately pulling back the intensity.
>
>That's <sfz> sforzando.  fp is forte first time, p second time.

No, fp is "forte piano" which is start out 'forte' and immediately reduce
to 'piano'.  Yeah, it's very similar to <sfz>.  For "forte first time piano
second time" you should write f-p.

-David