The question of how quick the return to normal should be, if there is no duration line added, is another discussion on which Ray and I do not agree. I remember a discussion with Knust where he advocated that movement indications not lengthened and not given a duration line should occur at the moment indicated, but not be interpreted as sharp, sudden, i.e. any active quickness featured, rather a passive brief event. It has seemed to me that this is a functional idea; the intention of suddenness can be added by an accent sign (slight or marked) or by an Effort sign. I see it as a briefer version of Ray’s Ex. RCj). I would not encourage use of his Ex. RCi).

To go back to Ray’s Aug. 17th paper: Ex. RC1a) from there looks like a system of reference key; this is not a solution as we are not dealing with how directions are to be interpreted. Ex. RC1f) ties the idea to directions, the place symbol has its own in-built meaning of the vertical line, hence not open enough. Re his Further Thoughts (same date?), Ex. RC1a states the duration of a return to normal. I had the same idea as Charlotte, Aug. 16, ’99, Ex. CW here, but have since come up with what I think is a better one, a statement placed between double horizontal lines at the start of a score to indicate what features are to be applied to the whole score, an established usage, my Ex. A5 here.