On Mar 28, 2014, at 12:51, Peter Trubinov <
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> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Daniel Spreadbury
> <
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>> do you have any
>> sense for the derivation of this symbol? The Hanuš example at least makes
>> some sense!
>
> an open time. So this sign is used for cancelling previoud time
> signature rather than for stating an open time (this is stated
> separately by a text "senza metro").
>
> Today while I was looking by examples of open time signature I've
> found even one more symbol used for this purpose, which looks like
> diagonally striked O:
>
> Charles Boone. "Parallels" for violin and piano. Komp., San Francisco, 1964:
>
http://notovodstvo.ru/smufl/openTime/boone.png>
> I think this is also quite a local one, so you probably don't want to
> include that to SMuFL as well.
I’ve used this sign in pieces to signify that there is no time signature and I’m sure I got it from someone else (not Charles Boone). It’s the mathematical sign for an empty set; I bet though that the few of us who use it can use the empty set sign for it. It would be good if notation software developers could specify a way of saying senza misura in their time signature options and let people specify a font symbol for it.
Best,
Myke
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