Dynamic Markings - How Do I do This.................?

• Aug 31, 2011 - 10:39

This isn't anything to do with scoring software in general or Musescore in particular but I hope you don't mind me asking a general "theory" question here.

I'm arranging a piece where I have no dynamic markings at the beginning - I'm assuming most players will use a moderate level here. Then I have a "question/answer" section. I have the "questions" marked f and the "answers" marked p. At the end of this section I want to explicitly instruct the player to revert to the volume level he used at the beginning of the piece. Is there a standard way of doing that - I don't really want to have to add dynamic marks throughout the score?

To put it another way, I want to simply cancel the last p section without using a specific dynamic indication - something equivalent to "a tempo" when you're wanting to cancel explicit tempo variations

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• Aug 31, 2011 - 14:41

I've never heard of such a thing. Even you find some obscure Italian phrase for that, it's very unlikely any of the musicians reading would recognize it, so it wouldn't help. Really, you should just add the dynamics at the beginning. While you're right that people will default to something mf-ish, why go out of your way to chance it? It's considered proper form to have a dynamic marking on every new entrance - meaning the first entrance at the begnning of a piece, or any re-enteance after a multimeasure rest.

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