Phrase break question.

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Phrase break question.

2009-03-02 01:52 am

I am looking for a way to insert a phrase break in the staff. In my nomenclature a phrase break in a vocal staff looks like this // (two slash marks).

Re: Phrase break question.

Reply #1 – 2009-03-02 02:24 am

Put two slash marks in as text.

It is called a "cæsura". It should start on the fourth line from the bottom of the staff.

Re: Phrase break question.

Reply #2 – 2009-03-02 05:35 am

Thanks again. I was a vocal major, but never heard that term. I never stop learning.
Thom

Re: Phrase break question.

Reply #3 – 2009-03-02 09:34 am

"Cæsura" is the original latin spelling.
The most often used spelling I saw is the italian "cesura".

By the way: the actual sound is the same, unless you use the German latin reading: "ka-esura"...

Re: Phrase break question.

Reply #4 – 2009-03-03 09:15 am

...I've had conductors call a cæsura "railway tracks"

-- the fermata "the pig's eye"

--the coda sign "the gunsight"

Re: Phrase break question.

Reply #5 – 2009-03-03 01:08 pm

Well, in Italy the "fermata" (that, by the way, is itself Italian and means "stop") is called "corona", that means "crown".