Re: ppppp but no fffff

[Jay Anderson]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Graham
Percival<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:33:18PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
>>
>> dynamic-scripts-init.ly
>>
>> why is there ppppp but no fffff?
>
> IIRC I asked this 3-4 years ago, and the answer was that somebody
> had seen ppppp in the literature (a Tchaik symphony, maybe?), but
> nobody had seen a fffff.
>

<http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/donbyrd/CMNExtremesBody.htm>

This page list The Tempest, Op.18 by Tchaikovsky as having fffff.
Check it out: 
<http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Tempest%2C_Op.18_(Tchaikovsky%2C_Pyotr_Ilyich)>.
See page 86 of the first file and page 44 of the second file at the
Andante non tanto. The strings and the woodwinds are at the full fffff
while the brass and percussion are only at ffff :).

-----Jay