When notating for a woodwind player, a staccato passage where tonguing between notes is not required, do I show a slur as well as the staccato marks? If not, how do I notate this?
I hope someone can help me. Thanks very much.

I'm not quite sure what you mean. For wind players, notes which have a slur and dots usually indicates "soft tonguing", which couldn't be described as staccato. I'm not sure how a wind player could play staccato without tonguing - it's kind of possible, but probably wouldn't sound very good.

Chris

Hi Alij,

its not really possible to play staccato notes without tongueing; Chris is absolutely right with the soft tonguing notation (slurs with dots underneath - this messed with my head for many years!).

Agree with the above. What sort of effect are you looking for alij, and which instrument?

So... does this mean that for a note within a slur, with a dot above/beneath it mean a soft attack using the tongue, but it should be less smooth than a legato tongue? I'm confused

I understand it to mean the lightest tongue possible.