Re: GDP: Time to plan the revision of NR 2 "Specialist

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 23:18:18 +0100
"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ralph Palmer wrote:
> 
> > 2.3.1  Bowed instruments
> 
> > I'd like to see "Fingerings" 
> 
> I'm not a string player and know nothing of this.  Is the
> normal fingering notation shown in NR 1.7.1 adequate for
> this, or are you looking for something peculiar to strings?

1.7.1 is all they need.  Well, maybe \open as well... although -0
works almost as well.

> > and possibly something about articulations
> > generally associated with just strings (if there are any).
> 
> I'll throw this open to the list - are there any?

Nope.

Granted, I cheated a bit by including \thumb in 1.7.1, but I don't
think there's anything else.  I suppose you *could* argue that
parts for very inexperienced string players could benefit from a
\textSpanner that says "II" (ie a hand position).  However, that
kind of thing is IMO best covered with snippets anyway.

I would expect (and hope!) that the snippet lists for NR 2
sections would be quite long.

Cheers,
- Graham