Does anyone know of a posh word for wiggly line?? I'm trying to write this essay about technique in relation to the flute etc...and I'm trying to describe how a trill is written without including another picture...So I can't put tr followed by a wiggly line in my essay... as it is one of the components of my ALCM

Squiggle? Sorry that isn't posh though

How about the letters tr followed by a short, wavy line? Sorry, I.ve been drinking at Appleblod's party.

A tr followed by a line that undulates!!!! Ooh- I've been drinking at my party too!!!

Do you actually have to describe a trill symbol? It seems a bit basic for a dip.

I know it does, but its a teaching diploma and the syllabus says I have to sound like I know exactly what I'm talking about. At the moment you could read the whole essay (which at the moment stands at just under 4000 words) and be able to play the flute quite well at the end of it in my own very humble opinion!

I like the undulating line by the way!

Thank you!! Come and join the party...

Ok, I asked the font of all knoledge that is my dad, and he says its called a tilde, and indeed if you look it up on wikipedia, it is just a squiggle

Yes, Daddy is right. It is called a tilde, looks like this ~
I had it in a password once and it cause no end of problems trying to tell others wha the password was!

Good luck with your essay! (don't drink too much more malibu)

SG

I always thought a tilde was like a turn in music?

A tilde is definitely the name of a symbol not a type of ornament. As Malone and St G have said, it's a "wavy line", which was originally used in the context of the Spanish language over the letter "n". It is now used in other contexts, but whether music is one of them I wouldn't like to say. If the term is so uncommon, it might be that the examiners won't recognise it either, and won't know what you mean .... If you want to play safe, you might be better using the term "swung dash", which is how I've seen it described occasionally in a musical context.

well you live and learn here ! I get the word tilde in a word-game I play online sometimes - kept meaning to look it up and never did - only knew it as a brand of packaged rice previously ! good to know what it really is.
(sorry - back on topic !)

the tilde definitely looks like the turn in music doesn't it? It's not really anything like the sign for a trill.
Yes, as Skylark says it is used in Spanish over the letter 'n' - to make it sound 'ny'; it is also found in Portugese to nasalise a vowel.
It seems it is also a sign in mathematics to indicate negation or inversion.

I am not sure I would have any idea what a 'swung dash' might signify


why not just 'a wavy line' ? Keep it simple !

A tilde looks nothing like the sign for a turn! A tilde is a wavy line. The sign for a turn is similar in the shape of its curvature to an "S" only much more pronounced.

SaxFan, perhaps you were thinking of a mordent?

no the tilde is like the turn, but maybe not quite so squirly at the ends, not quite so elaborate.

~ the tilde? yes.

I'm sure most of the trill signs I've seen have not been wiggly but more like a zig zag

I was thinking, could it be the approgiated sign?

I had that in my G5 Thoery and I didn't know till I asked her.. I also referred that to a squiggly line as well...

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