breath mark

Breath marks show suitable places for players to breathe, or suggest how the music is phrased to create a similar effect. Caesuras indicate that a note is sustained for its full value and is followed by a break in sound before continuing.

Breath marks are usually engraved with a comma like symbol placed above the staff. Alternatively a tick mark like symbol (or even an up bow symbol) is sometimes used instead. When a breath mark is optional (for a player with a greater lung capacity), the breath mark can be placed in parentheses.

The Breath Mark dialog box can be accessed in two ways, depending on whether you are entering a new marker or editing one that already exists in your score: Choose Utilities > SmartMusic Markers. Select Breath Mark from the marker list on the left and click Add.

In Finale, a breath mark, or luftpause ( ), is an Articulation; see Articulations. When you create a breath mark using the Articulation Designer dialog box, you can use the H: and V: positioning text boxes to place it automatically just to the right of the note it's attached to.

Whether you call it a breath mark, luftpause, or comma, the symbol indicating a breath or slight pause is, uh, comma-n to see in notated music. The marking, according to Elaine Gould in her reference Behind Bars, should be placed “just before a subsequent note or barline.”

caesura, (Latin: “cutting off,”) also spelled cesura, in modern prosody, a pause within a poetic line that breaks the regularity of the metrical pattern. It is represented in scansion by the sign ‖.

Mark your start point and endpoint. Use brackets to signify where you're starting, and close the brackets at the point where you're stopping. Write “Start” and “Stop” above the brackets, like this: A single cut might have multiple start points, like one for a 32-bar cut and another for a 16-bar cut.

A comma, according to the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, is defined as “the mark ( , ) used to separate the items in a list or to show where there is a slight break in a sentence.” The Macmillan Dictionary defines a comma as “the symbol ',' used in writing and printing between parts of a sentence or between things in a ...

Typically if no breath is required, the symbol "NB" or a dashed slur is used. There's no need to create a new symbol when existing ones work perfectly well, in my opinion.

1. Accent. The accent is a sideways V found on the top or bottom of the head of a note. It indicated that the specific note should be played at an increased dynamic over the other notes in the bar.

The notation for a breath mark in Western musical notation is an apostrophe, usually placed at the top of the staff at the point where the “breath” is to be taken. This mark is also called a “luftpause.”

NB Typically if no breath is required, the symbol "NB" or a dashed slur is used.