Sunday, December 22, 2019, 4:12:42 PM, Malte Meyn wrote:
> Am 22.12.19 um 13:23 schrieb Peter Toye: >> I
>> agree about \sp and \spp - what on earth are they meant to mean - a
>> sudden quiet note in the middle of louder ones? Not a common musical
>> gesture. > Maybe they mean “subito piano” and “subito
> pianissimo”? Then they would
> not be for only a single not like an accent
> (fz, sf, …) but for all
> future notes like a regular “piano”, just with an additional “don’t
> decresc. before this”. But that’s only me guessing …
Possible. New Oxford hasn't heard of them.
The point about sf, fz, sfz, rf, rfz is that they are abbreviations of normal words according to my Italian dictionary (not a language I speak).