Re: Unfamiliar articulation symbol

[David Kastrup]

Guy Stalnaker <address@hidden> writes:

> All,
>
> I'm engraving
>
> Russell's New and Improved Edition.
> Thoroughly revised & corrected
> by
> Vincenzo Vannini
>
> A Practical Method
> of
> Italian Singing
> by
> N(icola) Vaccai
>
> Translated
> (with special regard to a favorable arrangement of syllables)
> by
> Henry Badger
>
> Boston
> Geo. D. Russel
> Copyright 1878
>
> There is an articulation symbol used that I cannot find in Lilypond's
> documentation. It is the same symbol as the marcato, except upside down. I
> have no idea what it is. I thought perhaps to take the Marcato symbol and
> simply rotate it 180-degrees. But alas I have been unsuccessful at
> ferreting out exactly the required directives to make this happen. I tried:

rmarcato = \tweak rotation #'(180 0 0)
\marcato

{
  c\rmarcato
}

> 1. Does anyone actually know what this symbol is? Again, looks like a
> Marcato except rotated 180-degrees.

Maybe it _is_ a marcato.  And the symbol has been reoriented in musical
practice when violinists confused it with \upbow.

-- 
David Kastrup