Salzedo breath mark

• aug 13, 2019 - 20:40

Does anyone know the original use or common use of the Salzedo breath mark? I want to use it (in my a cappella choir music) as a minor break but without breathing, so that the line goes on. Such it symbolizes both a break (or comma) and also that the notes on each side of the symbol is combined.
I would then use a regular comma or breath mark as a longer break, where one breathes.

Does this make sense to anyone?
I cannot find a proper explanation of the use of the Salzedo breath mark.


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I want to use it...as a minor break but without breathing, so that the line goes on.

To continue the line without breathing, why use a breath mark at all (since no one is actually breathing)?
Simply use a fermata so that the "line goes on but without breathing", with a minor pause/break - i.e., the note is held - at the fermata. The pause length is set in the Inspector.

I've been using it as an optional breath mark, but I've just realised this may not be correct, and there probably should be using a breath mark in parentheses, which doesn't seem to be an option.

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