Conducting indications

[bersyl91]

Hi, There are many possible conducting indications but it seems that SMuFL doesn't has such glyphs. Is it possible to add some in the near future? I think, for example, on:

• bold bar delimitations (above the bar itself) to indicate carrures
• subdivision/patterns indications (by 1, 2 or 3 essentialy).
• lines across parts to indicate the path of the theme

Thank you ina dvance

[dspreadbury]

Thanks for raising this issue. Could you please provide more information about the symbols you are proposing be added to SMuFL? Ideally we would need examples of the appearance of each symbol, plus citations for publications where these symbols are used.

[bersyl91]

Hi, Thank you for your answer.

Well, there are many, but the main ones are lines and ellipses, preferably in color (red, blue are mainly used), along with beat indications (binary or ternary essentialy).

Without long search for a reasonable axample, I've tried to indicate the main annotations a director can put on a score (PDF file joined). In addition to that, many conductors use:

• the nuances letters (ppp, pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, fff, sf, sfz & al.) and symbols (< and > mainly)
• horizontal crotchets and partial ellipses (sorts of slurs) indicating a duration for something.

Conducting_indications_samples_annoté.pdf

It's important to notice that such indications are not to be duplicated on separate parts.