1.117 extender line
ES: línea de extensión [de melisma, de bajo cifrado, etc.],
I: ?,
F: ligne d'extension [de mélisme, de basse chiffrée, etc.],
D: Fülllinie,
NL: ?,
DK: ?,
S: ?,
FI: pidennysviiva.
The generic term (in LilyPond) for a line (or dash) of arbitrary length that
extends text (without indicating the musical function of that text).
Used in many contexts, for example:
- In vocal music to indicate the syllable for a melisma. Called
‘extension’ in the
Dolmetsch Online Music Dictionary.
- In figured bass to indicate that:
- The extended note should be held through a change in harmony, when applied
to one figure –OR–
- The chord thus represented should be held above a moving bass line, when
applied to more than one figure.
- These uses were not completely standardized, and some composers used a
single extender line to indicate the latter case.
- In string music to indicate that all notes in the passage thus indicated should
be played on the same string. On the violin, for example, a series of notes to
be played on the G string would be indicated sul G, another series to be
played on the D string would be indicated sul D, and so on.
- With an octave mark to indicate that a passage is to be played higher or lower
by the given number of octaves.
See also
melisma, sul G, thorough bass, octave mark,
octave marking.