Sheet Music Fermata symbol

[cappers]

I know what a fermata means - hold note longer than normal at the player's discretion. The usual symbol is:

Reading @Pete Thomas Tone Control Exercises on TTS, I noticed this symbol:

Is this a stylised fermata or does it have another meaning?
Thank you.

 

[JayeNM]

it's a Fermata Smilie...

 

[Pete Thomas]

I know what a fermata means - hold note longer than normal at the player's discretion. The usual symbol is:
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Reading @Pete Thomas Tone Control Exercises on TTS, I noticed this symbol:
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Is this a stylised fermata or does it have another meaning?
Thank you.

Yes. Somewhere in the intro I say what it is and means. It goes with the handwritten font, but the latest edition has a more normal font

 

[cappers]

Somewhere in the intro I say what it is and means.

Must have missed that.
Cheers

 

[progger]

Yep, just a fermata with a different font. Now which font is the question... Finale Jazz Font? Broadway Copyist? Golden Age? Font-heads must know!

 

[Tuppertn]

it's a Fermata Smilie...

Fermoji?

 

[Dr G]

Yep, just a fermata with a different font. Now which font is the question... Finale Jazz Font? Broadway Copyist? Golden Age? Font-heads must know!

A real font head would already know!

(Yeah, I’m trashing talking on a subject I know nothing about. I actually think it’s pretty cool. My grad advisor was a font head too. He seemed easily distracted by a serif.)

 

[cappers]

He seemed easily distracted by a serif.

Many were distracted by Sans Serriffe on 1st April 1977....

https://static.guim.co.uk/ni/1454601868089/San-Serriffe-special-report.pdf

 

[PigSquealer]

Fermoji?

Music Minions ?

 

[progger]

A real font head would already know!

(Yeah, I’m trashing talking on a subject I know nothing about. I actually think it’s pretty cool. My grad advisor was a font head too. He seemed easily distracted by a serif.)

(I'm 90% sure it's Finale Jazz Font...) 😇

 

[Wonko]

I know what a fermata means - hold note longer than normal at the player's discretion. The usual symbol is:
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Reading @Pete Thomas Tone Control Exercises on TTS, I noticed this symbol:
View attachment 34695
Is this a stylised fermata or does it have another meaning?
Thank you.

I think it means "sing like The Beatles would"
😎

 

[Pete Thomas]

(I'm 90% sure it's Finale Jazz Font...) 😇

It was either Swing font or Jazz font (but not Finale)

 

[JayeNM]

It was either Swing font or Jazz font (but not Finale)

Thus why not understandable to most....

 

[thomsax]

I know what a fermata means - hold note longer than normal at the player's discretion. The usual symbol is:
View attachment 34694
Reading @Pete Thomas Tone Control Exercises on TTS, I noticed this symbol:
View attachment 34695
Is this a stylised fermata or does it have another meaning?
Thank you.

Good question. I like basic theory .... .I'm not a good reader and first time I saw the "fermata" symbol I was told just to keep my head up, eyes and ears opened. The bandleader, singer, guitarist ..... is cutting of the song. Here is the "fermata" used as the last tone of the outro.