[MEI-L] Closed/Plus encoding symbol: other meanings

[Byrd, Donald A.]

And it's often used for left-hand pizzicato in music for bowed strings, hard key slaps for flute, and probably five another things in music for five other instruments.

--Don


On Feb 26, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Eleanor Selfridge-Field <esfield at stanford.edu> wrote:

> It's also an ornament in SOME English harpsichord/clavichord music.
> 
> Eleanor
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] On Behalf Of
> Craig Sapp
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 12:34 PM
> To: Music Encoding Initiative
> Subject: Re: [MEI-L] Closed/Plus encoding symbol
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Technically it will depend on the semantics of the symbol, as a '+'
> sign will most likely have different meanings for different
> repertories/instruments.
> 
> For French Horns, the "+" sign is used to indicate a stopped note (or the
> start of a sequence of stopped notes that would be cancelled by an "o"
> above a note, meaning "open".).
> 
> In the MEI articulation list:
> 
> http://music-encoding.org/documentation/guidelines2013/data.ARTICULATION
> 
> I see an entry called "stop", so that is the most likely thing to start
> with.
> 
> -=+Craig
> 
> 
> 
> On 26 February 2015 at 12:13, Andrew Hankinson
> <andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm trying to encode a "+" articulation mark on a note, and don't seem
> to be able to find anything in @artic that matches up with it. I could be
> looking in the wrong place, though.
>> 
>> You can see an example of this symbol in action in Gould's "Behind Bars"
> on pp. 281, 297-8 (closed hi-hat) and 263 (Horn hand-stopping). I've
> consulted the Unicode Western notation guide (from which @artic seems to
> take its inspiration) and it also seems to be lacking there.
>> 
>> Any clues?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Andrew
>> 
>> 
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Donald Byrd
Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellow
Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics
Visiting Scientist, Research Technologies
Indiana University Bloomington