What does it mean if musical notes are written in smaller font than the rest?

It’s not a part of cue. It looks like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saxtuba_range.svg

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 at 2:34 pm and is filed under Musical Notes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “What does it mean if musical notes are written in smaller font than the rest?”

  1. Cullen Says:

    only in some verses

  2. alex_leaf Says:

    This looks like a beginning of a glissando.

  3. del_icious_manager Says:

    In this context, the smaller black notes represent notes only playable by an instrument with more than three valves. Without a fourth valve, the gap between the low F# (all three valves depressed) and the instrument’s pedal notes (the ‘fundamental’ tones; the 7 semitones descending from the written ‘C’ below middle C) will be not be available due to a lack of tubing through extra valves.