Re: question: volta + dynamics

[Mats Bengtsson]

David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> On Friday 12 March 2004 01:48, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote:
>
> > 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.

Don't talk nonsense! The notation fp is common in lots of music
should be performed similarly to fz and sfz (exactly how it should
be performed depends on when the music was written and may also
vary from composer to composer.


   /Mats